Charles Bukowski Quotes

I see something, find it marvelous, want to try and do it. Whether it fails or whether it comes off in the end becomes secondary. . . . So long as I've learned something about why.

I like to experiment, and my life has been eventful.

I want to go everywhere, look at and listen to everything. You can go crazy with some of the wonderful stuff there is in life.

Dig into life with wild roving abandon, opening your mind to the delicious possibilities that perplex the mind, entice the heart, and excite the spirit.

I find this life so interesting.

Traveling is the only passion that doesn't need to feel shy in front of intellect.

I'm passionate about learning. I'm passionate about life.

The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure.

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

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

One life is not enough for me. I want to go lots of places.

Travel is a lot like love.

I was always restless, always a roving spirit. When I was a little child I was always running away. I never got very far, but they were always having to come and fetch me. Once when I was about six, my father came to get me somewhere I'd gone, and he told me later he'd asked me, "Why are you so restless? Why can't you stay here with us?" and I said to him, "I want to go and see the world. I want to know the world like the palm of my hand.

None but the ignorant can be bored by life. To the lovers of learning, life is pure adventure shared with adventurers.

Life is an adventure of passion, risk, danger, laughter, beauty, love; a burning curiosity to go with the action to see what it is all about, to go search for a pattern of meaning, to burn one's bridges because you're never going to go back anyway, and to live to the end.

I've so much left to explore, it's enormously exciting to me. It's a passion. I just try and get better at what I do, and I study it very hard, like it is my life degree.

Savor the mystery, Stephen, we don't get enough of them.

I love finding and doing new things and trying stuff out; that's my favorite thing to do.

Kids should be allowed to break stuff more often. That's a consequence of exploration. Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing. That's what scientists do every day.

Even as a kid in the Bronx, I wanted an adventurous life.

I'm ever curious about the world. I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about. Having a vivid imagination is also a plus.

I just like seeing the world, and it doesn't matter where.

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor.

I enjoy science, and I'm a very curious person. I always want to know the reason behind everything, big or small.

Movement has been one of the few constants in my life, and I always feel a great sense of optimism when I set off to a new place.