Jon Krakauer People Quotations

Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often.

I'm intrigued by fanatics - people who are seduced by the promise, or the illusion, of the absolute.

Alaska has long been a magnet for dreamers and misfits, people who think the unsullied enormity of the Last Frontier will patch all the holes in their loves. The bush is an unforgiving place, however, that care nothing for hope or longing.