More quotes by Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

"I understood what he was doing, that he had spent four years fulfilling the absurd and tedious duty of graduating from college and now he was emancipated from that world of abstraction, false security, parents, and material excess."
"When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines upon you."
"Happiness [is] only real when shared"
"I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth."
"Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one."