Quotes About Exploration

Most fiction says you may or may not be alive tomorrow; science fiction talks often about the future.

I've often thought books give you - put you in a world that you never thought you could go. And I often would say, I don't need to go to California. Give me a book that talks about California. And I can put it in my head and imagine what it looked like.

As I was writing, I realised I wasn't sufficiently extrovert to gather enough interesting souls with tall tales around me. I was no Louis Theroux. But neither was I interested in exploring my inner life in public, in the manner of a Jonathan Raban.

I grew up in my father's laboratory and played beneath the chemical benches until I was tall enough to play on them.

I did climb about 80 buildings around the world and I climbed even the five tallest.

I was the first man to climb the world's 14 tallest peaks without supplementary oxygen, but I never asked how high I would go, just how I would do it.

Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And yet they inhabit a world which is really rather mysterious.

I already have legitimacy as a filmmaker and now I'm trying to do stuff that's just fun. Until I find a cool tangible subject again that I want to tackle.

I've discovered all kinds of music and done all kinds of music over the past 40 years, from playing tango with Piazzolla to all the different bands I've had.

Honestly, I don't really know the rules of tango!

My biggest emotion on Apollo 13 after the oxygen tank explosion was disappointment that we had lost the landing.

It's easy to reckon that the oomph to hurl even a Smart Car-size spacecraft to another star at, say, 20 percent the speed of light (and land it when it arrives) is the energy contained in 50 billion gallons of gasoline. The tank's not big enough.

In the world of imagination, all things belong.

Scholars look for final truths they will never find. Creative writers concern themselves with possibilities that are always there to the receptive.

In intellectual honesty, we should be willing to study and explore the spiritual life with all the rigor and determination we would give to any field of research.

Prayer catapults us onto the frontier of the spiritual life.

How, then, do we step into the richness and power of this life?

Pull on the new flesh like borrowed gloves and burn your fingers once again.

Kids need their minds blown every now and then. It'll keep them from thinking that managing a McDonald's is the most they can hope for.

Up ahead, Donut Universe shines like the Virgin Mary doing barrel rolls over Lourdes, so I head over.

Maybe these are a little farther down the road to Candy Land.

Beautiful. Now I have to burrow like a groundhog into Mason's basement to the same room where he summoned those things to take me Downtown. Nothing can possibly go wrong with this plan.

Vidocq turns in a slow circle. "My God. It really is a room full of doors." "Thirteen. What did you expect?" "I assumed the doors were a metaphor. Each door would be a way to describe a different state of being." "No. It's just a lot of doors.

I give people the latitude to express their imagination.