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."
"What if I were smiling and running into your arms? Would you see then what I see now?"
"I read somewhere... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong... to measure yourself at least once."
"Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one."
"Happiness [is] only real when shared"