Michael Chabon Quotes About Adventure

Quotes about: Adventure

• All male friendships are essentially quixotic: they last only so long as each man is willing to polish the shaving-bowl helmet, climb on his donkey, and ride off after the other in pursuit of illusive glory and questionable adventure.

  Michael Chabon

  Adventure, Men, Long

  Michael Chabon (2011). “Wonder Boys”, p.359, Open Road Media

• 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.

  Michael Chabon

  Adventure, Eye, Land

  Michael Chabon (2012). “Maps and Legends”, p.21, HarperCollins UK

• The thing that strikes me now when I think about the Wilderness of Childhood is the incredible degree of freedom my parents gave me to adventure there. A very grave, very significant shift in our idea of childhood has occurred since then. The Wilderness of Childhood is gone; the days of adventure are past. The land ruled by children, to which a kid might exile himself for at least some portion of every day from the neighboring kingdom of adulthood, has in large part been taken over, co-opted, colonized, and finally absorbed by the neighbors.

  Michael Chabon

  Children, Taken, Adventure

• Art is a form of exploration, of sailing off into the unknown alone, heading for those unmarked places on the map. If children are not permitted-not taught-to be adventurers and explorers as children, what will become of the world of adventure, of stories, of literature itself?

  Michael Chabon

  Art, Children, Adventure

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