Bolivia Quote by Mark Helprin

I went to South America with the idea that I would be an explorer, that I'd find lost tribes, become one of them, marry…

— Yossi Ghinsberg

Everything I know about work and opportunity, I learned from my parents. They risked everything to ensure my family and I could have a…

— Alex Padilla

With a nearly desperate sense of isolation and a growing suspicion that I lived in an alien land, I took to the road in…

— William Least Heat-Moon

Except for when I was very little and thought that being an "engineer" meant he drove a train. Then I imagined him in the…

— Nicole Krauss

Since I was 10 years old, I knew I wanted to sail around the world.

— Laura Dekker

I knew I couldn't live in America and I wasn't ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast…

— Spalding Gray

I lived too much in my head instead of the real world.

— Sara Zarr

I drove from New York to California by myself. The iconography of travel and escape is everywhere in my photographs... So actually becoming a…

— Justine Kurland

I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I went to a number of foreign countries, and during whenever I went, I would try to go to an orphanage or a home…

— Sam Brownback

I was the designated grown up in a family that operated in different reality than the rest of the world.

— Rosemary Clement-Moore

There was something special about being in a strange place, all alone in a mass of people even if you had just screwed up…

— Louis Sachar