Dan Chaon Quotes

I don't know where I see myself next month let alone five years. My whole life is last minute. I enjoy the spontaneity of it; I like not knowing what I will do next or whether I will be in the country next week. I just enjoy being around a creative environment.

I don't like to make my life like a book.

If I knew my schedule a month ahead, I'd be so bored.

I don't ever want to feel like my whole life is laid out before me and I know exactly what's gonna happen. That would be so boring.

If it's planned, it's boring

Who knows? Maybe years from now I'll be on a ranch in Colorado with 10 kids. The whole point of life is to experience a little bit of everything, and I think it's better when there are a few surprises thrown in.

If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

The less routine the more life.

If I knew where I was going, I wouldn't do it. When I can predict or plan it, I don't do it.

At its best, life is completely unpredictable.

Hitchhiking was such a pure form of existence. You'd wake up in the morning, and you'd have no idea what your day was going to be. And that's something I've never been able to shake. I loved that.

Who knows, I have always lived one day at a time. Probably more adventure and excitement.

At times I ask myself if I shouldn't be living a more regular, stable life with a 9-to-5 job. Then I think about it and realise that there is no point in planning everything.

I never knew when I was gong to leave. I might be walking over to a kid's house, then of all a sudden I would just stick out my thumb and hitchhike across three states.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

I never know where I am going, though. That is part of what makes it so wonderful. And after all, who does?

I'm a little bit of a gypsy myself. I've always had jobs where I'm moving around and I'm not sure what's going to happen tomorrow or the next day.

Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.

What I love most about this crazy life is the adventure of it.

I am more of a surprise kind of guy. I love to find out as I go.

If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom.

Life's supposed to be an adventure, a surprise!

I'm not afraid of chaos and I'm happy talking to strangers. I really love not knowing where I'm going.

I think that's what I love about my life. There's no maniacal master plan. It's just unfolding before me.