Quotes About Exploration

As a kid, I loved any fantasy.

Fantasy allows for less rigorous worldbuilding and more vigorous exploration of moral questions. Sci-fi is opp.

Fantasy is the oldest form of literature and science fiction is just a new twist on it.

I define science fiction as the art of the possible. Fantasy is the art of the impossible.

I have a fantasy that might be fun. Why don't we try it?

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.

Writing is a form of running away. Running away to a place you made with your own hand.

...sometimes when you are lost for direction, you are open to a new way of seeing.

You keep squintin' in Savage's dark corners, you gonna wish yourself blind.

To read is to live inside a new world...

Our fathers were Englishmen which came over this great ocean, and were ready to perish in this wilderness.

But the love of adventure was in father's blood.

My father helped me leave. He said, 'It's all out there, it's not here.'

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Doubt is the father of invention.

The best thing that I got was rehearsing with my father. It was always about the process of figuring things out, and trying something new, and having another take on something and keeping it alive.

My father suffered from chronic wanderlust. When I was 14, he set out on a yearlong road trip across Europe and Asia - and decided to take me along for company.

My father gave me free run of his library. When I think of my boyhood, I think in terms of the books I read.

I made films from the - when I was a little kid, my father bought me a movie camera. I just wanted to. I don't know how. You just learn, you just do it. You just do it.

My father's plan was, we were going to grow up and travel the world.

I like to step into areas where I am afraid. Fear is a sign that I am going in the right direction.

Playing things too safe is the most popular way to fail.

I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.

Don't be afraid to expand yourself, to step out of your comfort zone. That's where the joy and the adventure lie.