More quotes by Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

"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."
"According to the moral absolutism that characterizes McCandless's beliefs, a challenge in which a successful outcome is assured isn't a challenge at all."
"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?"