America can enjoy a vital, fully functioning government, with all the benefits provided by Texas, while reducing Texas at the same time. Ian Frazier More Quotes by Ian Frazier More Quotes From Ian Frazier I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces. Ian Frazier disregard pieces reader 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 ears sound talking Sometimes travel is merely an opportunity taken when you can. Ian Frazier taken opportunity sometimes Siberia is a state of mind. Ian Frazier state siberia mind You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book 'Great Plains'. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program. Ian Frazier drive great you people I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre. Ian Frazier own me writing book I was friends with Russians who said I should see Russia. I went there in '93 and it was so exciting, and I went to Siberia and had a great time. Ian Frazier great see friends time America to me is so varied and exciting. I always feel nostalgia for the place I'm not in, and then I get there and find myself in a traffic jam going into the Lincoln Tunnel, and I think, 'God, why was I romanticizing this part of the country?' I think it has to do with the romantic, unrealistic temperament. Ian Frazier myself me god romantic I would hate to see the idea of freedom disappear, and I wonder if maybe it will. Ian Frazier will freedom hate wonder Once, America's size in the imagination was limitless. After Europeans settled and changed it, working from the coasts inland, its size in the imagination shrank. Ian Frazier size changed imagination america I believe that when Crazy Horse was killed, something more than a man's life was snuffed out. Ian Frazier man crazy life believe I think Indians dress better than anyone, but I don't want to imitate more than a detail or two; I prefer my clothes humdrum and inconspicuous, and a cowboy hat just doesn't work for me. Ian Frazier dress me clothes work When I go to Indian reservations in the West, and especially to the Pine Ridge Reservation, I sometimes feel unsure where to put my foot when I open the car door. The very ground is different from where I usually stand. There are fewer curbs, fewer sidewalks, and almost no street signs, mailboxes, or leashed dogs. Ian Frazier street feel car sometimes Russia has always had a global history. Global history is a bummer. You suffer invasions of all different kinds. And Russia was not defended against them. Ian Frazier you always different history