I have no wisdom and nothing useful to tell you - I only mentioned this because it came into my head.

- Russell Hoban

Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.

- Russell Hoban

Explorers have to be ready to die lost.

- Russell Hoban

The Zoo is a prison for animals who have been sentenced without trial and I feel guilty because I do nothing about it. But there it was, I wanted to …

- Russell Hoban

After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?

- Russell Hoban

There must be a lot of people in the world being wondered about by people who don't see them anymore.

- Russell Hoban

Too-lateness, I realized, has nothing to do with age. It’s a relation of self to the moment. Or not, depending on the person and the moment. Perhaps …

- Russell Hoban

The things that matter don't necessarily make sense.

- Russell Hoban

An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of; we blind them as quickly as possible.

- Russell Hoban