Quotes about Spontaneity

Love, in the sense of spontaneous, unreflective action, spells the death of the old man.

I bought a lifetime pass on American Airlines and had a blast. The most memorable was going to Barcelona on a whim and scalping tickets at the Olympics to the Dream Team Quarterfinals.

A human being in a highly technicized productive unit is simply not allowed to be spontaneous. It just interferes with the plan laid down in advance by the engineers and technicians who decide how he should word, and in this way he, the human being, is profoundly diminished, because he is not permitted to be spontaneous.

Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage.

Life is short, break the rules.

There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.

Life is an improvisation. You have no idea what's going to happen next and you are mostly just making things up as you go along.

To ignore the unexpected (even if it were possible) would be to live without opportunity, spontaneity, and the rich moments of which "life" is made.

Practice random beauty and senseless acts of love.

Life is too short to eat vanilla ice cream and dance with boring men.

Laughter is easier, minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word.

It's just a crazy old thing. I just slip it on sometimes when I don't care what I look like.