«He smiled, ‘Why, you will go home and then you will find that home is not home any more. Then you will really be in trouble. As long as you stay here, you can always think: One day I will go home.’ He played with my thumb and grinned. ‘Nest-ce pas?’ ‘Beautiful logic,’ I said. ‘You mean I have a home to go to as long as I don't go there?’ He laughed. ‘Well, isn't it true? You don't have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.’» Giovanni’s Room James Baldwin