Bill Kurtis Quotes

When I go on vacation, I take very few clothes and a whole lot of books. It's the most soothing thing in the world. Reading 'Moby-Dick' is like being in a time machine. I almost feel as excited as the first time I read it and I always find something new.

There has to be space for play in literature. We all need some breathing room.

There's something attractive about making people temporarily forget their actual age by taking them out of their normal lives so completely. Doesn't travel, by its very nature, strive to do this?

I think the best vacation is the one that relieves me of my own life for a while and then makes me long for it again.

Sometimes that is why you might even stay in the bathroom for even half an hour, making that water running all over, just singing.

If I wasn't acting, all I'd do is ride my bike. I've always loved doing that.

I've been able to carve out spaces for myself. At Sundance, I'm in the mountains - my property is private. I get on a horse and ride for three, four hours. Sometimes five. I get lost. But when I'm in, I'm in.

I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.

This is such a special summer holiday for me. I haven't known myself so relaxed in years.

I like to take walks in the park by myself, where no one can bother me and I can think.

Lie on the bridge and watch the water flowing past. Or run, or wade through the swamp in your red boots. Or roll yourself up and listen to the rain falling on the roof. It's very easy to enjoy yourself.

All my ego wants is to be sitting by a lake in Italy. It doesn't want to be backstage, warming up.

It was a great escape for me and it was a way to take a break from what was going on in my own world, to go into another world.

Laughter is an instant vacation.

One of the few luxuries left is travel. And the aspect of travel that is luxurious is not the movement, but the being there.

I love to sit on a mountain top and gaze. I don't think of anything but the people I care about and the view.

I think I would spend the first 30 weeks not writing, just clearing my head and seeing parts of the world I haven't seen and going back to places I have seen and love.

I drive a lot. Just for pleasure. Sometimes I'll get in the Cadillac and drive around the city or the country, kind of trying to get lost basically. Y'know, just see where roads lead.

The beach is definitely where I feel most at home. It's my oxygen. I forget how much I need it sometimes when I'm away working.

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds.

The thing I love most about going on vacation is that I get to leave behind any kind of schedule. My entire life is scheduled from morning to night, and when I'm on vacation, there is no schedule.

You can go up in the air and everything is gone. You know, you don't think about baseball. You don't think about anything. It's just something that takes you away from everyday life. I love being in a plane and looking down to see traffic on the freeway.

I can bat in the morning, afternoon, evening, night, on ice, desert, wherever and whenever. It is almost nirvana for me. It takes me away from the stresses of life.

Well, we have this place in Telluride, Colorado. It's somewhere I can just get away and relax and think.