Unsettled Life Quotes

My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago for two years, to San Francisco for one year, Connecticut for seven, Oregon for a couple years, and then I went to school. So I was always moving, I'm still always moving.

I thrive on that nomadic lifestyle.

I've never dated. I can say this honestly: I don't know what it's like to date. But also, how am I going to date? I'm not in one state long enough.

I lived in Hollywood long enough to learn to play tennis and become a star, but I never felt it was my home. I was never looking for a home, as a matter of fact.

The other thing is I don't want to move any more. I have moved so many times in my life.

I move countries every three or four years. I was born in London, and we lived in Canada. Then we lived in Saudi Arabia until the Gulf War broke out, when we were forced to leave. Then we hop-scotched for a while from Holland back to Canada back to Saudi Arabia. Then there was D-day, so we had to get out again.

I don't have a permanent place where I live. I'm in Atlanta about six or seven months out of the year. I gave up on my place in New York. I don't have a place in L.A., but sometimes when I go there for the hiatus, I stay in temporary housing. It's all over the place, and I don't know where I live!

I basically live out of my truck - I mean from place to place. I feel more at home in my truck than just about anywhere, which is a sad thing to say, but it's true.

I've been involved in something which was chaotic and insane. All I can say now is that I am, and intend to stay, a single man.

I am a gypsy, in a way. It's a condition of my profession.

I spent my thirties living out of boxes and moving every six months to a year. It was my cloud period: I just wandered like a cloud for ten years, following the food supply. I was a hunter, gatherer, an academic migrant.

Many today feel troubled and distressed; many feel that, at any moment, the ships of their lives could capsize or sink.

When you're in a different place every day, there's this kind of madness that sets in.

I was in a military family, so by the time I was 13 I'd lived in six different places.

Forty freaked me out. I didn't see it coming. My life was in a state of chaos - I was moving jobs and moving house - and it just hit me like a ton of bricks.

I have always considered it a beautiful metaphor that Cervantes had no fixed address in Spain. He is thus everywhere and nowhere. There are a number of sites connected with his life, but none attract hordes of travellers the way Stratford-upon-Avon and the Globe Theatre in London draw Shakespeare aficionados.

From the age of 31, I have lived in hotels.

I'm single because I move about so much that I can't really get attached.

I live quite an unsettled life.

Maybe a hundred years ago our people should have run away from this place, I said... And then run from the next place and the next place and the place after that? You run once, what makes you think you won't have to run all the rest of your life?... We love moment to moment... Everything changes. One minute we are part of the river, and the next we are joined with the sea.

It's an obstacle being a girl when you move all over and don't have half the things you need. It's like everything is wrinkled in your life.

So when I say that I am a refugee, you must understand that there is no refuge.

I've lived out of a suitcase for four years.

I don't have a normal life.

People in California don't live in a place so much as they do a condition.