Ian Frazier said this quote

Would Crazy Horse have spent this much to remodel a kitchen?

~ Ian Frazier

Then a beat-up car lurched into sight towing an even more beat-up car. As the cars came near, I saw that they were connected back to front by a loop made of two seat belts buckled to each other. That was the only time I ever saw a Russian use a seat belt for any purpose at all.

~ Ian Frazier

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

~ Ian Frazier

It reflects like an optical instrument and responds to changes in the weather so sensitively that it seems like a part of the sky rather than of the land. And along with all that, Baikal is distinctly Asiatic: if a camel caravan could somehow transport Baikal across Siberia to Europe, and curious buyers unwrapped it in a marketplace, none would mistake it for a lake from around there.

~ Ian Frazier