Allen Ginsberg Quotes

I love doing normal things - movies, shopping, going out with friends, writing, reading, taking hot bubble baths - that's a big one for relaxation. I also love to go to art and history museums.

I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.

Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools - only instead of cool water, you immerse yourself in art.

My weekends are oases of time and space, where I am able to draw a breath and dive into the stuff I couldn't get to that week - the great article I bookmarked, the friend whose emails I kept dropping, the blog post I'd meant to write on a subject that wasn't timely but was still important.

I love to deer hunt and fish and drive down the back roads in my truck. All those things basically equal freedom to me - and not having to return that message or call from my record company or management.

Honestly, with me, as long as I have a park to play basketball in, I'm pretty cool.

I just want to work on things that are really hard, and when I'm not working on things that are really hard, I want to hang out with people I like to be with, and that's it.

Normally, I just sit in my quiet little room and do the small things that bring me pleasures. I read my books, I answer email, I write a little bit.

I just go out and play.

I'm going to do as much as I can with this life, and then I'm going to make sure to take some time off and be simple and ride my bike and hang out with friends.

I like simple things. I like being in my family in the South and playing petanque.

And I ride horses, swim, do a lot of reading, writing.

Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.

I enjoy hanging out with friends, going on hikes and playing tennis. I also enjoy Bible study and making dinners. I have a pretty mellow life away from the water.

I've been doing some writing, which I find very cathartic and fun.

I suppose I would still prefer to sit under a tree with a picnic basket rather than under a gas pump, but signs and comic strips are interesting as subject matter.

I like to read and listen to music and go for walks and travel and see art. I enjoy cooking and eating and spending time with my family. I don't really find myself searching for things on the television very much.

Other than fishing and a little bird-hunting, all I do is write.

I feel like I live a pretty quiet life. I like to focus on work and friends, and I love being in nature.

I spend a lot of time in bed when I'm off. But if I'm feeling adventurous, I'll go to a gallery.

We love going to museums. We are so into history and into art. We find it a great way to decompress.

I don't go to malls. I've just always been a simple person. I hang out, work out. That's what I think is fun.

Living in Edmonton feels so calm, but there is still so much to experience. I know I can find something to do if I want to have fun.

I'm quite a simple person really; I love pottering about, walking and swimming.

I go into a gallery or museum, and I realize that I don't have to formulate any opinions if I don't want to. I don't have to think this thing through and write about it at any great length. I can think about it if I want to; if not, I can just walk out. So I can enjoy painting really a lot more than I could when I had that sort of pressure.