Quotes About Curiosity

People always want us to go back to the Island of the Dolls in Mexico or to Chernobyl - which I'm not going to go back to - or to this haunted forest in Romania.

I don't even know where Russia and Mexico are.

It is quite common to meet people that live a few kilometers away from Mexico and that have never been there. We need to revive on many levels an illustrious desire to get to know the world, to learn another language, to understand and create empathy with people that live a few kilometers away from us. It's never late to do this.

I grew up all over the world. My dad was a doctor but not a career-type doctor. He was very curious, so he took the whole family and moved to Miami in the '70s, and we lived there for a couple of years. Then we continued like that and lived in various places around the world.

I always wanted to interview Michael Jackson, because I just wanted to humanize him.

One person I find fascinating is J.Crew's Mickey Drexler. I would love to get into that brain and see how it works.

I always imagined myself sitting on a ship. Diving in, catching a fish, putting the fish under the microscope, looking at it, categorising it, catching an alien, and saving the world.

I read a great deal of science fiction with consummate pleasure between, say, the ages of 12 and 16. Then I got away from it. In my mid- to late 20s, I started trying to write it.

I think it's fascinating that people take an interest in a middle-aged married couple and what happens behind our closed front door.

I really do have this thing for middle-aged politicians.

I seem to fancy middle-aged men, weirdly.

I want to see that 'Anita' documentary. I want to see 'Lovelace'; I want to see 'After Midnight,' because I saw the other two and I loved them. I thought the last one was great.

It's been said that astronomy is a humbling and, I might add, a character-building experience.

I haven't seen 'Magic Mike' yet, and neither has Dani. Or maybe she has seen it, and I just don't know!

I've been interested in China ever since I was a kid. When I was a kid, I grew up in San Francisco about a mile from China Beach.

Reading Bukowski and Burroughs and Henry Miller doesn't necessarily mean that a kid is going to try to emulate their debauchery to the point that Nic did, but he really was fascinated by it.

I still don't know how to jump-start a car, even though it's been told to me a million times. But I do love thinking about how creativity works.

A book suggests a whole world and story that I could have never thought of in a million years.

The creative mind is restless.

One of the great things about children is that they have no other concern than to be simply interested in things. It is considered by some the height of mindfulness to approach the world afresh like a child.

Little boys have amazing minds.

I love to watch how scientists' minds work.

I love to lose myself in other men's minds.

I would love to be able to read minds. How cool would it be to get inside peoples' heads and figure out what they're thinking? I guess that's a good and a bad thing.