Quotes about Spontaneity

You have to be able to improvise. You have to be able to pick up opportunities that come along.

To step on board a steamer in a Spanish port, and three hours later to land in a country without a guide-book, is a sensation to rouse the hunger of the repletest sight-seer.

I couldn't really jet off to the States on a whim and a prayer.

Getting caught up in rigid habits is not an option.

Information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious otter of roses out of the otter.

Why do I pray? Because I never know what's going to pop out of my mouth.

She would know a good thing to do without thinking about it.

Life is to be lived, not controlled.

The paradox in our relation to nature is that the more deeply a culture respects the indifference of nature, the more creatively it will call upon its own spontaneity in response. The more clearly we remind ourselves that we can have no unnatural influence on nature, the more our culture will embody a freedom to embrace surprise and unpredictability.

Moving therefore from an original center, the sexual engagements of infinite players have no standards, no ideals, no marks of success or failure. Neither orgasm nor conception is a goal in their play, although either may be part of the play.

I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.

Be a child again. Flirt. Giggle. Dip your cookies in your milk. Take a nap. Say you're sorry if you hurt someone. Chase a butterfly. Be a child again.