belonging Quotes

I'm half-Irish, half-Dutch, and I was born in Belgium. If I was a dog, I'd be in a hell of a mess!

My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here.

My books are always about somebody who is taken from aloneness and isolation - often elevated loneliness - to community. It may be a denigrated community that is filthy and poor, but they are not alone; they are with people.

To merely observe your culture without contributing to it seems very close to existing as a ghost.

My publisher's been shipping me to comic-cons, and it seems that my readership overlaps perfectly with the comic-con crowd.

To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.

It's in my blood to be around people while I was training.

I am neither of the East nor of the West, no boundaries exist within my breast.

For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.