“I let no chance go by untaken. I never hesitated to follow where my curiosity beckoned. I willingly went where there was danger in beauty and beauty in danger. I had experiences in plenty. Many were enjoyable, some were instructive,… — Gary Jennings Copy Share Image
“The Han language resembles no other on this earth. While I had no trouble learning to speak Mongol, and to write with its alphabet,… — Gary Jennings Copy Share Image
After the survivor of the Spanish conquest has told his life's story he is convicted by the Inquisition: He posted no brief in defense or mitigation of his offenses, and when he was most solemnly advised by the Court President of the dire consequences he faced if found guilty, Juan Damasceno volunteered only one comment: "It will mean I do… — Gary Jennings Copy Share
“The wise man shall pass into strange countries, and good and evil shall he try in all things.” — Gary Jennings Copy Share Image
Collect adventures and experiences to reminisce about…go to far places, meet new people, eat exotic foods, enjoy all varieties of women, look on unfamiliar… — Gary Jennings Copy Share Image
“That is the hazard in curiosity, I thought: all the certainties fragment and dissolve. A man curious enough and persistent enough might find even the round and solid ball of earth to be not so. He might be less proud of his faculty of reasoning when it left him with nothing whereon to stand. But then again, was not the… — Gary Jennings Copy Share
I'm a writer. I write not only for a living, I write because I'm a writer. — Gary Jennings Copy Share Image
I do not know what she was thinking, but I was remembering the years we have lived together, yet never together, and what a… — Gary Jennings Copy Share Image
“If a man is to have a fault, it should be a passionate one, like insatiable curiosity. It would be a pity to be… — Gary Jennings Copy Share Image
Love and time, those are the only two things in all the world and all of life that cannot be bought, but only spent. — Gary Jennings Copy Share Image
“I let no chance go by untaken. I never hesitated to follow where my curiosity beckoned. I willingly went where there was danger in… — Gary Jennings Copy Share Image
Of all that I have possessed in my life, my memories are the only things remaining to me. Indeed, I believe that memories are… — Gary Jennings Copy Share Image
“He also made all Muslims publicly forswear that part of their Holy Quran which permits them to dupe, cheat and kill all who are… — Gary Jennings Copy Share Image
