Quotes About Adventure

Matamoros, Mexico? Tegucigalpa, Honduras?

Wearing an off-white skier's jumpsuit, he had a bullhorn in one hand, a walkie-talkie clipped to his belt, a digital thermometer zippered on his sleeve, and a revolver holstered on his hip.

Great Detective's Retired Landlady Does Battle with Sea Monsters with Bare Hands While Surviving Worst Atlantic Disaster Since the Titanic.

Where are we going?" Tony said. "Somewhere wonderful," Unlikely Worlds said.

to escape the deepening grip of multinational corporations and the Coca-colonisation of the weird. Out here, you could still have your mind eaten by an alien phantom, stumble upon a lost city, or discover a fraying thread of some kind of weird quantumised metamaterial that could kick-start a new industrial revolution and make you a billionaire. Out here were places not yet mapped. Old dreams and deep mysteries. A world wild and strange and still mostly unknown.

It's like if you're an astronaut and you've been to the moon, what do you want to do with the rest of your life?

Paul's last words to Linda: "You're up on your beautiful Appaloosa stallion. It's a fine spring day. We're riding through the woods. The bluebells are all out, and the sky is clear-blue".

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in an attractive and well presented body; but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "Woo hoo, what a ride!

Si vivre dans les villes est une folie, au moins New York est-il une folie qui en vaut la peine.

When I travel I normally eat club sandwiches or I bring my own food. When you go into a new town, it's very had to find a good place to eat.

Life isn't like a box of chocolates. It's like a jar of jalapeños: You never know what's going to burn your ass.

If it was to be a time of momentous changes, then why not allow oneself to be swept along?

She had to make her own marvelous mistakes.

Travellers understand, instinctively and by experience, that travel and adventure change and elongate time, even while navigating the deadlines of airline and train departures.

There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.

Well I'm on my way I don't know where I'm going I'm on my way I'm taking my time But I don't know where

You're at your best when you don't know what you're doing.

Ammonians started from Thebes with guides,

You're the guy that'll be sneaking out of your bedroom at three o'clock in the morning to look at your bike.

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.

Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.

The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.

A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere, travels on the ground, sees something and spends quite a lot of time doing it, and has a hard time, and then comes back and writes about it. It's not about inventing.

The amount of hassle involved in travel can be overwhelming.