“It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no ...” — Jon Krakauer Quote

“It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it.”

“Happiness means nothing to me. I just want to have meaning and purpose.”

“As I point out in the very first pages of 'Into the Wild,' I approached this book not as a normal, you know, unbiased journalist.”

“If I can learn how to pitch in two months, and I'm doing OK, how can we not assume that a woman who's been working on it for her entire life won't be playing in the MLB? It's ridiculous.”

“A lot of cats in New Orleans, very soulful, very soulful musicians and they assume that they're singers. And they just make that assumption. And so when there's a little intonation problem, people are very forgiving of them because they heard how soulful they play.”

“The way I approach an election, I assume nothing. I run scared as a jackrabbit.”