Quotes About Adventure

When I was younger, before this layoff which has nearly finished me, I hitchhiked one hundred and twenty-seven hours without stopping, without food or sleep, crossed the continent twice in six days, cooled my thumbs in both oceans and caught rides after midnight on unlighted highways, such was my skill, persuasion, rhythm. I set records and immediately cracked them; went farther, faster than any hitchhiker before or since.

I have hitched and hiked over every state and half the nations, through blizzards and under rainbows, in deserts and cities, backward and side-ways, upstairs, downstairs and in my lady's chamber.

We, each of us, have a ticket to ride, and if the trip be interesting (if it's dull, we have only ourselves to blame), then we relish the landscape (how quickly it whizzes by!), interact with our fellow travelers, pay frequent visits to the washrooms and concession stands, and hardly ever hold up the ticket to the light where we can read its plainly stated destination: The Abyss.

I began to hitchhike in something akin to geological time: slow, ancient, vast.

Those who shun the whimsy in life will experience rigormortis before death.

nothing the human race has ever invented is more cool than a book.

The world is a very strange place,and the dice are always rolling

When it comes to coolness, nothing the human race has ever invented is more cool than a book.

So it was that neither for the first time nor the last my verbal mojo, my knack for the written word, served to save my reckless ass.

They say a story that begins with a beet will end with the devil; that is a risk we will have to take.

O shoe, leather ship that sails our cement rivers and woven seas, steering by the star of fashion, circumnavigating hostile reefs of tar and bubble gum; one hour, a tanker ferrying champagne to a playboy's sip; the next, a raft in the slime; bon voyage, bright barge! May you dock in calm closets, safe from the rape of shoe trees.

As we drive up the river road, there are sixty thousand trees which I see but do not touch. Like me, Amanda is confined in the speeding Jeep, but she touches every tree.

That princess cannot expect a happy ending who has been rescued by the dragon.

Leigh-Cheri went out in the blackberries and wept. "I'll follow him to the ends of the earth," she sobbed. Yes, darling. But the earth doesn't have any ends. Columbus fixed that.

I was seven or eight months old - a creeping, crawling carpet crab.

The fetus bailed out without a parachute.

You dig me, don't you? A little boy, he can play like he's a fireman or a cop

a novel that does its own stunts

Perhaps the most terrible (or wonderful) thing that can happen to an imaginative youth, aside from the curse (or blessing) of imagination itself, is to be exposed without preparation to the life outside his or her own sphere- the sudden revelation that there is a there out there.

Every exit is an Entry somewhere else.

One shouldnt ask oneself how a person flies or why, but simply start flying.

If you surrender to the wind you can ride it.

You got a life? Live it! Live the motherfuckin life!

Well, if a man don't HAVE a chance, then he has to TAKE a chance!