Sometimes travel is merely an opportunity taken when you can.

- Ian Frazier

People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.

- Ian Frazier

I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.

- Ian Frazier

Words are charms. It's like a song you didn't even know you knew.

- Ian Frazier

Russians don't complain, usually.

- Ian Frazier

Human connection is the way things work. It's like a patronage system. You know somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows …

- Ian Frazier

Every once in a while, people need to be in the presence of things that are really far away.

- Ian Frazier

When the days start to get shorter, I want to be in some nice brick building on the East Coast with the lights glowing in the windows. When the dayli…

- Ian Frazier

When I needed to think or was really upset, generally I climbed a tree.

- Ian Frazier