“I know that in the territory I grew up in I was a foreigner, since my ...” — Alice Rohrwacher Quote

“I know that in the territory I grew up in I was a foreigner, since my father - who's German - is a foreigner. I somehow had the ability to see that land, that place, with different eyes than the people around me, who were somehow more used to the landscape and the place.”

“I grew up alongside this fever in the '80s and '90s. There was a true fever for Etruscan treasures. All the men and boys in my little town would go out at night and search for these treasures to sell them.”

“I'm very happy to be a foreigner in Japan, and I can't think of a more wonderful place to live, but at the same time, I would never want to be Japanese, because they are subject to stresses that I am not.”

“Naples reminds me of Senegal, as when a foreigner arrives, everyone does their best to help him out.”

“I'll always be a foreigner.”