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."
"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."
"Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one."
"When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines upon you."
"What if I were smiling and running into your arms? Would you see then what I see now?"