Alan Cohen Quotes

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.

Even though you're growing up, you should never stop having fun.

Your soul is infinitely creative. It is alive and expansive in nature. It is curious and playful, changing with the tides of time.

My favourite words are possibilities, opportunities and curiosity. I think if you are curious, you create opportunities, and then if you open the doors, you create possibilities.

Use your imagination, and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.

I'm still a kid inside, and adventure is adventure wherever you find it.

I find time to write the way kids find time to ride their bikes.

Children haven't changed - the world around them has. Their basic natures haven't changed. They like ice creams. They like to have fun, play games if they get space.

John not only taught me to explore, but to play thoroughly and completely.

If you are open-minded and you let the universe come in, you never know where things might go.

Childhood, at its best, is a perpetual adventure, in the truest sense of that overtaxed word: a setting forth into trackless lands that might have come to existence the instant before you first laid eyes on them.

Humans test their brand new wings and invent new possibilities using new-fangled things not with grim determination, but with play.

I'm interested in new worlds, new universes, new challenges. I always said the only reason to make a film is not for the result but for what you learn for the next one.

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

There is that romanticized idea of what a bookstore can be, what a library can be, what a shop can be. And to me, they are that. These are places that open doors into other worlds if only you're open to them.

When you're a little kid, you are small, your life is small - and you're terrifically aware of that. But when you read, you can ride Arabian horses across the desert, you can be a dogsledder.

I just want pieces of the world.

Ideas come from ordinary, everyday life. And from imagination. And from feelings. And from memories. Memories of dust in my sneakers and humming whitewalls down a hill called Monkey.

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

I've always been inspired by small details that make me wander. My mother would ask me, 'What are you looking at so intensely?' I would answer, 'Everything and nothing.' She really supported my wanderings, called me Marco Polo.

Where there is an open mind, there will always be a frontier.

I think that it is expansive for the mind, for the fantasy of children and grownups alike, to understand that the world is huge. There is so much in the world to experience, and the odds are so essential to life.

There is a child inside me that wants to come out and do something to surprise all the adults.

We always have a take that's 'one for fun', so once you've got what you need, you can do what you like. Something does occasionally pop out of that tree. I'm always open to ideas.

A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.