Into the Wild

He risked what could have been a relentlessly lonely path, but found company in the characters of the books he loved.

When you want something in life, you just gotta reach out and grab it.

The sea's onIy gifts are harsh bIows and, occasionaIIy, the chance to feeI strong. Now, I don't know much about the sea, but l do know that that's the way it is here. And l also know how important it is in Iife not necessariIy to be strong, but to feeI strong,
to measure yourseIf at Ieast once, to find yourseIf at Ieast once in the most ancient of human conditions, facing the bIind, deaf stone aIone with nothing to heIp you but your hands and your own head.

It shouId not be denied that being footIoose has aIways exhiIarated us. lt is associated in our minds with escape from history and oppression and Iaw and irksome obIigations. Absolute freedom.

Rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness, give me truth.

I understood what he was doing. That he had spent four years fuIfiIIing the absurd and tedious duty of graduating from coIIege, and now he was emancipated from that world of abstraction, faIse security, parents and material excess.

— Yeah, Alex could have a vehicle as well, but he decided to burn all of his money.
— And why did you do that?
— l don't need money. Makes people cautious.
— Come on, Alex. You gotta be a little cautious. l mean, that book of yours is cool and everything, but you can't depend entirely on leaves and berries.
— l don't know if you want to depend on much more than that.