Quotes About Exploration

Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America

As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind - every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder.

Being around new and different people always brings out some new part of who you are.

Ricky had taught me a few cuss words. I usually practiced them in the woods by the river, then prayed for forgiveness as soon as I was done.

There are few things I like better in life than getting lost in a good book.

Who'll try it?" Samantha asked.

He boarded the Pan American Clipper, said hello as always to Captain Pete, walked past a row of slot machines, and found a seat on the top deck, away from the other passengers. He faced south, toward Ship Island, which was not visible.

What's on the high side?" Koane asked.

That's enough. Phyllis is planning to retire too, and we want to travel the world. I'm tired of Sterling, Florida, and she's tired of Mobile. We have no kids to keep us grounded, so why not take off somewhere? Spend some of our Indian money.

thought, a tour was just what

Scat Man Doo and his trusty Shit Stick had gone where no man had ever gone before. And none should ever go again.

Mary arrived at Inverness only to find that the captain of the castle

pair of globes, one astronomical and the other terrestrial.

The journey was up to thirty miles each way across rough country using the most direct paths.

It's the compass; not just the little head ruling the big head, though that's part of it. It's the natural instinct of following your heart, your eyes, to move from place to place, country to country, and do what you feel inside, to find out what you feel inside. How can you find yourself if you stay in your country of birth? It's important, vital, to stand aside and take a look from a different angle, to look with a fresh pair of eyes.

Its home is in the world; and to know what it is, we must seek it in the world, and hear the world's witness of it.

Sometimes I feel as though I were a diver who had ventured a little beyond the limits of safe travel under the sea and had entered the strange zone where one is said to enjoy the rapture of the deep.

You may think it's enough to just read Val Kilmer's wine blog and drink whatever he recommends. And for the most part, you would be right. But sometimes Val Kilmer gets confused and drinks Thousand Island salad dressing, and so it's important to develop your own palate as well.

I was a newly created Negro who must go out that door and live in a world unfamiliar to me.

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties. (Interview in Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews , Eighth Series, ed. George Plimpton, 1988)

It is exhausting to be seventeen and not know who you are.

Almost everyone is dying to leave home, eventually; and almost everyone needs to.

In schools—even in good schools, like Exeter—they tend to teach the shorter books by the great authors; at least they begin with those. Thus it was Billy Budd, Sailor that introduced me to Melville, which led me to the library, where I discovered Moby Dick on my own.

Treading water, a little dog-paddling—it's a lot like writing a novel, Clark," the dump reader told his former student. "It feels like you're going a long way, because it's a lot of work, but you're basically covering old ground—you're hanging out in familiar territory.