Catastrophe Quote by Bruce Chatwin

“Passports were originally created to provide safe conduct in time of war. During most of the eighteenth century it seldom occurred to Europeans to…

— Murray N. Rothbard

“having a passport is not a sign of surrender. On the contrary, it is liberating, since it creates the possibility of new experiences. It…

— Timothy Snyder

Having a United States passport has been an incredible asset, and I hope that will continue to be the case.

— Dara Khosrowshahi

Once I accidentally left my passport in Nice, France, when I was on my way to Prague. Upon arriving in Vienna, after taking an…

— Megalyn Echikunwoke

I tore up and ate my own passport in an airport hotel once. I'm bloated with language I can’t afford to forget.

— Warsan Shire

The disaster... is what escapes the very possibility of experience—it is the limit of writing. This must be repeated: the disaster de-scribes.

— Maurice Blanchot

I kept notebooks as a kid, and they were important to me.

— Emil Ferris

Reasons for not keeping a notebook: 1) the ambiguity of the reader

— Lionel Trilling

“No matter what happens in the world, however brutal or dystopian a thing, not all is lost if there are people out there risking…

— Tomasz Jedrowski

“The most tragic form of loss isn't the loss of security; it's the loss of the capacity to imagine that things could be different.”

— Ernst Bloch

My fairy-tale life ended the moment I wanted to apply for a passport.

— Joan Chen

A notebook can be a clearing in the forest of your life, a place where you can be alone and content as you play…

— Ralph Fletcher