Dominick Dunne Quotes

... the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home.

Get out and find ...the country. And ourselves.

The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and one has to wander through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end.

Adventure is humdrum and routine unless one assimilates it, unless one relates it to a central core which grows within and gives it contour and significance. Raw experience is empty, just as empty as the forecastle of a whaler as in a chamber of a counting house; for it is not what one does, but in a manifold sense, what one realizes that keeps existence from being vain and trivial.

Those who would see wonderful things must often be ready to travel alone.

I've always wanted to get as far as possible from the place where I was born. Far both geographically and spiritually. To leave it behind ... I feel that life is very short and the world is there to see and one should know as much about it as possible. One belongs to the whole world, not just one part of it.

Ah! Young people, travel if you can, and if you cannot - travel all the same!

By not going to school I learned that the world is a beautiful place and needs to be discovered.

When I was younger, shopping helped me discover many new places and many new things.

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

All my books reflect travel adventures of some kind, and all have a soul: a spiritual or mystical underpinning.

The most adventurous I've been was doing Raleigh International when I was 20.

Traveling is magical, inspiring, and life - changing.

Great storytellers in the past would go to an unknown land and return to tell the stories they've found. Those were also journeys into their inner psyches and that's still true today. An actor, a writer, does that as if saying, 'Here's what I've discovered about myself and about the world I'm in. I would like to share this with you.'

I want to find something really wonderful to do next and take my time to search through the dearth of great material, especially for women.

Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

I do think that travel can be part of a journey of inner maturation, but you've got to do it right.

I enjoy exploring and finding myself.

Basically, life isn't just about eating and partying - we need to figure out unique ways in which we can add to our curiosity levels, besides satisfying the wanderer in us.

Gail Sheehy tells us that "the delights of self-discovery are always available." All Fools' Day is the perfect day to engrave this wisdom in our hearts.

The longest journey begins with a single step, not with the turn of an ignition key. That’s the best thing about walking, the journey itself. It doesn’t much matter whether you get where you’re going or not. You’ll get there anyway. Every good hike brings you eventually back home. Right where you started.

I hunt everywhere for a life worth living and a knowledge worth knowing. Having roots nowhere, I have everywhere to go.

At the beginning we learn to travel, then we travel to learn.

On the Road that I have taken, one day walking I awaken, amazed to see where I've come, where I'm going, where I'm from.