Adventure Quotes by Tim Cahill

Many people go into the wilderness to experience it, and if they experience it in comfort, there's very little in a literary sense for…

— Tim Cahill

Stanley Kubrick, I had been told, hates interviews. It's hard to know what to expect of the man if you've only seen his films.…

— Tim Cahill

An adventure is never an adventure when it happens. An adventure is simply physical and emotional discomfort recollected in tranquility.

— Tim Cahill

The traces of our life here will lie cold and still, dreaming, like the brittle eyes of dolls in an abandoned cabin, and the…

— Tim Cahill

The hard wind we get around here on the eastern slopes of the Rockies is called a Chinook. It's a katabatic wind and comes…

— Tim Cahill

Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing.

— Tim Cahill

In the sago palms, you'll often find sago beetles which are about the size of your little finger. The Karowai put those on the…

— Tim Cahill

As one of the first editors at 'Outside' magazine in 1975, it was my contention that most American writing going back to James Fennimore…

— Tim Cahill

New Orleans jazz is a complex and embracing art form that began about the same time as the blues and encompassed many of its…

— Tim Cahill

“EARLY MORNING IN THE yard at the Men’s Reformatory at Anamosa, prisoners lounging about, doing lazy time, and here comes John Wayne Gacy, inmate…

— Tim Cahill

My first book was called 'Buried Dreams,' about a serial-killer, which was probably about ten years ahead of the serial-killer curve. It was a…

— Tim Cahill

Healthier, perhaps, to find beauty in life and feel it expand inside of us.

— Tim Cahill

A journey is best measured in friends, not in miles.

— Tim Cahill

In 1952, Muddy cut the song 'Rollin' Stone.' It was a nationwide success, and the song echoes down through rock n' roll history. Bob…

— Tim Cahill

A constant ongoing joke among the people that I travel with is my absolutely hopeless sense of direction. I'm able to get lost a…

— Tim Cahill