Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives. — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
Sometimes travel is merely an opportunity taken when you can. — Ian Frazier Opportunity Copy Share Image
When I needed to think or was really upset, generally I climbed a tree. — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
Everything in Russia is made of cement - phone booths, fence posts and light bulbs. — Ian Frazier Bulbs Copy Share Image
There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place. — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
Human connection is the way things work. It's like a patronage system. You know somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows… — Ian Frazier Connection Copy Share Image
Once, America's size in the imagination was limitless. After Europeans settled and changed it, working from the coasts inland, its size in… — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
America can enjoy a vital, fully functioning government, with all the benefits provided by Texas, while reducing Texas at the same time. — Ian Frazier America Copy Share Image
When the days start to get shorter, I want to be in some nice brick building on the East Coast with the… — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
I think Indians dress better than anyone, but I don't want to imitate more than a detail or two; I prefer my… — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
Leading economists have shown that by shrinking Texas, we can actually create more income for Texas in the long run. — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would… — Ian Frazier Book Copy Share Image
Roy Blount is so funny, and he sounds like he's just talking, and the next thing you know he has tossed off… — Ian Frazier Birdsong Copy Share Image
With reporting, if you work hard, you can usually pull something out. But writing humor doesn't respond to working hard, necessarily. I… — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
Cursing dads are terrifying, you know? Cursing dads are - I don't know why, but no. It just doesn't seem to me… — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
“It reflects like an optical instrument and responds to changes in the weather so sensitively that it seems like a part of… — Ian Frazier Change Copy Share Image
“Katya talked about how the Russian language is being destroyed by poor education and by the sloppiness of nonnative speakers who ignore… — Ian Frazier Education Copy Share Image
When I go to Indian reservations in the West, and especially to the Pine Ridge Reservation, I sometimes feel unsure where to… — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
I don't want to participate in traditional Indian religious ceremonies - dance in a sun dance or pray in a sweat lodge… — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross… — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
“America is a leap of the imagination. From its beginning, people had only a persistent idea of what a good country should… — Ian Frazier Action Copy Share Image
“Some settlers began with no implements but an ax. In conversation, the subject of axes--their ideal weight, their proper helves--was more popular… — Ian Frazier Communication Copy Share Image
Every once in a while, people need to be in the presence of things that are really far away. — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
I would hate to see the idea of freedom disappear, and I wonder if maybe it will. — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
“In Russia, meanwhile, dedicated young people kept trying to kill the tsar.” — Ian Frazier Humor Copy Share Image
Words are charms. It's like a song you didn't even know you knew. — Ian Frazier Charm Copy Share Image
I believe that when Crazy Horse was killed, something more than a man's life was snuffed out. — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
Russia has always had a global history. Global history is a bummer. You suffer invasions of all different kinds. And Russia was… — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects… — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does,… — Ian Frazier Comedy Copy Share Image
I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to… — Ian Frazier Books Copy Share Image
“Scientists estimate that the Siberian permafrost holds the remains of 150 million mammoths—or about 8 million more than the 142 million Russians… — Ian Frazier Cities-spaces-places Copy Share Image
On two or three book tours, I have visited bookstores in the Mall of America and signed copies of my books and… — Ian Frazier America Copy Share Image
