“As surely as there is a voyage away, there is a journey home.”

“Art hurts. Art urges voyages—
and it is easier to stay at home.”

“On my fifteenth birthday I'll run away from home, journey to a far-off town, and live in a corner of a small library. It'd take a week to go into the whole thing, all the details. So I'll just give the main point. On my fifteenth birthday I'll run away from home, journey to a far-off town, and live in a corner of a small library.”

“I wanted to create a voyage to the moon just for her, but what I
should have given her was a real journey on earth.”

“Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”

“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.”

“Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown, with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop. Many passengers would rather have stayed home.”

“hey. I just wanted to make sure you got home," I say. "Katniss, I live three houses away from you," he says.”

“And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our own feet, and learn to be at home.”

“I am away from home and must always write home, even if any home of mine has long since floated away into eternity.”