Quotes About Jon Krakauer

Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th Century invention and I don't want one. You don't need to worry about me; I have a college education. I'm not destitute. I'm living like this by choice.

I'm going to have to be real careful not to accept any gifts from them in the future because they will think they have bought my respect.

And although his perspective was absolutist and unyielding, it presented a kinder, gentler alternative to Calvinism, which had been the ecclesiastical status quo in the early years of the American republic.

It is not uncommon for doctors to be chronic overachievers; Beck wasn't the first physician to go overboard with a new hobby. But

According to Montana law, Keteyian countered, a person who is physically incapacitated is incapable of providing consent. Given her extremely high blood alcohol level, he wondered, wasn't Belnap clearly incapacitated?

No more than 20 percent of rapes are reported to the police, a statistic that defies comprehension until one looks closely at how sexual-assault cases are adjudicated in the United States.

A. Alvarez The Savage God: A Study of Suicide

No Man Knows My History, her magnificent, contentious biography of Joseph

A large man, he cheerfully refers to the prison's maximum-security unit as "my monastery.

When I write books, I've learned not to have any expectations that I'm going to change the world.

I knew that you couldn't make a living simply writing about the outdoors, so I made an effort from the beginning of my freelance career to write about other subjects.

Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th Century invention and I don't want one. You don't need to worry about me; I have a college education. I'm not destitute. I'm living like this by choice.