Spontaneous Adventures Quotes

Life is always surprising to me. When you think it's going to get dull, it never really does.

I miss the energy of New York City and being able to step out of my apartment and see so much unique culture all the time around me without having to seek it out. In L.A., I have to sort of seek out everything I'm trying to do. It makes it less spontaneous.

A young man who is unable to commit a folly is already an old man.

When I'm home, I still live like I'm traveling. I have nothing in my refrigerator.

Life is full of surprises.

There's a deep underlying unpredictability to life that is thrilling. In China, my wife would say you go out to buy toilet paper, and you come back, and something interesting or revealing or funny happened on the way.

If you look at a great city, one of its amazing features is that you're going to find all sorts of things that you might not specifically have chosen in advance. And they will change your day. Maybe your month. Maybe your whole life.

As a musician I'm kind of nomadic, Waldo-like. I show up in different places, and I'm witness to unbelievable things.

I've always had an urge to feed my need to have fun and feel free. I don't see any interesting alternatives.

Anyone who has read my books will know that I don't tend to use guides when I am travelling. It's not a pride thing, but it is certainly a fact.

I used to drive myself about in an old Austin van... and then have to sleep in the back because I couldn't afford a hotel.

The great thing about New York is that you don't have to set out to do anything. Whenever I go without the kids, I walk all day and see the most interesting stuff. There's always some kind of drama playing out.

My social life goes in bursts, where I get like, "Oh, I gotta get out and do something, man, I gotta do something." And I'll plan a trip and go on a motorcycle trip down the Baja Peninsula for 900 miles and I'll hang out with my friends for like a month, and then they'll never see me for two months or three months or whatever, and I won't answer any calls.

Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?

I like the serendipitous surprises of reality.

Generally, when I come to festivals, I just wander freely and see what happens.

My childhood was colorfully anarchic and punctuated by a lot of change.

My favourite things are just wandering from place to place, going to cafés, taking photographs. My favourite day is a happy accident.

The best things in life sometimes happen spontaneously.

If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.

I like to be surprised by life.