"I am not a brave man at all, but a cautious, even timid soul who makes himself pull off one stunt after another for his own good. And I entered the lonely darkness thinking: Public space should not be like this; all the world ought to be mine. But how can I make it so?" (61)

"Every time I surrender, even necessarily, to authority which disregardingly or contemptuously violates me, so I violate myself. Every time I break an unnecessary law, doing so for my own joy and to the detriment of no other human being, so I regain myself, and become strong in the parts of me that the security man can never see." (97-8)

From William T. Vollmann's train-hopping memoir, Riding to Everywhere.

"In disused factories and abandoned barns I feel emotions that are aesthetic (beauty defined by function), nostalgic (sites of production where nothing now is produced), erotic (memories of children’s games), beneficent vacuity, calm, all mixed up, in a tingling way, with feelings of death, fear (perfect scene for a crime), and the forbidden (no one gave me permission to enter this private property)."

—Edouard Levé, Autoportrait, p. 98, translated by Lorin Stein.

"I like to collect experiences the way other people like to collect coins and stamps."
- Michael McGuire, adventurer


"Adventure without risk is Disneyland."
- Douglas Coupland


"Why not?" is a slogan for an interesting life.
-Mason Cooley

"Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions."
-Dag Hammarskjold

"Fortune favors the bold"
-???

Posted by Dan Lee "Fortune favors the bold" -???

In Latin it's: audentes Fortuna iuvat - Pliny the Elder.

"Man those were good tacos!" Martin Luther king jr

"Great architecture has only two natural enemies: water and stupid men." - Richard Nickel

"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment."

~Will Rogers

"No matter where you go, there you are"

My hero!

"Character may be manifested in great moments, but it is made in small ones."
Phillip Brooks (quote for the day according to one of my apps lol)

"Everyone makes mistakes. Or perhaps you're just stupid and make poor decisions."

~Adam Carolla

“Live fast, die young and have a good-looking corpse!” is actually a famous line said by actor John Derek in the film Knock On Any Door, which premiered on February 21, 1949.

or

“Live fast, die young and leave a beautiful corpse!” Unknown, so far...

four more from memory.

"Do not put off until tomorrow, what you can do today." President Kennedy

Made good sense to a 6 year old...

"Rain is only water" Albert Einstein April 1939 Flushing New York.

"Even in the future urinals don't work" Me, 2010 in a public men's room.

"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.” - Sherlock Homes”― Arthur Conan Doyle

Posted by Hawkwind “Live fast, die young and leave a beautiful corpse!” Unknown, so far...

"The man who knows it all has a lot to learn"

Not sure who said it but I try and keep it in mind.