More quotes by Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

"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."
"Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past."
"It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong."
"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."