To torment and tantalize oneself with hopes of possible fortune is so sweet, so thrilling!

Every single time it was grand. I loved the moment when you announce the stickup and everything suddenly goes brighter and sharper and the world seems to spin faster. You show them the gun and...

I have managed not to finish certain books. With barely a twinge of conscience, I hurl down what bores me or doesn’t give what I crave: ecstasy, transcendence, a thrill of mysterious connection. For, more...

The biggest thrill you can have is to tell people one of your songs, and have them be able to hum it.

It was the sexual chemistry I wanted more of. It was electric. I’d forgotten what it was like to be with someone who excited you in every sense of the word, who thrilled and frightened...

He looked around at that one room, and the few things in it. He’d always thought retiring would be going back to his life after some nightmare pause. Some stretch of exile in the land...

…I love the thrill of impending, weightless doom…

You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.

Oh, people get used to so many things,” said Vadesh, “if only they give them selves a chance.

I’m such a Goody Two-shoes, but I get a vicarious thrill at someone sticking it to the Man.

I have no idea how long Quisser was gone from the table. My attention became fully absorbed by the other faces in the club and the deep anxiety they betrayed to me, an anxiety that...

I can still recall the thrill of shooting my first film.

Each of us has our definition of adventure: ending an unsatisfyingrelationship, returning to school, parachute jumping or training for amarathon. Go ahead. Get your thrill on.

I’m not a treasure hunter—I’m a treasure farmer. I grow quotes, and each person like Tim Fargo who tweets me is a thrill no shipwreck can match.