Quotes About Adventure

El hombre necesita del misterio como del pan y el aire, necesita de las casas embrujadas, de las personas innombrables, de las calles sin retorno que hay que esquivar.

Yo ya no soy el mismo.Ya no pregunto cómo será mi destino. Le debo a Ezequiel el haberme enseñado que la vida no es más que eso: asomar la cabeza, para ver qué pasa fuera, aunque haya tormenta. Y una Suite de Bach

pensé en todos los que habitan en las ciudades y en quienes van de una ciudad a otra, de un país a otro, de un planeta a otro planeta, como si en algún lado las cosas fueran a ser mejor, como si en algún lado uno pudiera sacarse los zapatos, y sin temer nunca más, equilibrado en su destino, manejándolo en el puño, palpando directamente el valor y la gallardía en los latidos calientes de la esperanza, decir aquí me quedo y nada me moverá

crow flies, during that night or early the next morning.

out in the world there was all the untried beckoning enchantments:dancing, sensuous music, merriment--and love.

I sing the joy of wandering and the pleasure of the wanderer's death

Here be the Dragons

It's like we stepped into some TV show about cops or spies. Only we're not cops or spies. We're teenagers.

To become a mother, I feared, was to relinquish your status as the protagonist of your own life. Your questions were answered, your freedom was gone, your path would calcify in front of you. And yet it still pulled at me. Being a professional explorer would become largely impossible if I had a child, but having a kid seemed in many ways like the wildest possible trip.

That trip was like all my life, distilled: a compulsion to thrust myself toward adventure, offset by a longing to crawl into the pouch of some benevolent kangaroo who would take me bounding, protected, through life.

But the truth is, the ten or twenty minutes I was somebody's mother were black magic. There is no adventure I would trade them for; there is no place I would rather have seen. -Thanksgiving in Mongolia, The New Yorker, November 18, 2013 Issue

I had traveled across Asia for six months with a backpack when I was twenty-two. My mood on those exotic days in Katmandu and Da Nang alternated between euphoria and lonely terror. I had traveler's checks that I kept with my passport in a little sack that I wore under my T-shirt at all times, afraid that someone would snatch it and then I would be completely fucked.

We didn't sit around looking at our phone or looking at our computer or looking at the television. We didn't sit around looking at screens. We didn't wait for a screen to give us a signal to do something: We were off doing whatever we wanted." I

We become brave by doing brave acts.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

I have always preferred an occasional orgy to a nightly routine. What? Aunt Augusta said that. In Travels with My Aunt.

The line, Lasko. Do you know anyone in San Francisco? Are you just gonna get off the train and take a streetcar to the swimming pool?" "I might. I could." "You have to have a plan, Lasko." "No, I don't. Not after this. I don't have to have a plan in the world.

C'mon, let's go join those tedious people.

Life's not a one-shot special. It's a friggin' on-going series. Live it!

Did you say Ends of the Earth?!! I don't think I've enough gas for that!!

The quest may be about enkantos -- but in truth. It is a quest of the heart! A quest to know and meet the eternal.

A good novel rushes you forward like a skiff down a stream, and you arrive at the end, perhaps breathless, but unexhausted.

Mr. Penfound's Two Burglars, Midnight at the Grand Babylon, The Police Station, The Adventure of the Prima Donna, The Episode in Room 222, Saturday to Monday, A Dinner at the Louvre

I have a love interest in every one of my films - a gun.