“Always abandon your enemies,and never abandon your friends.”

“Humans serve cats as dogs serve humans. And sometimes, I fear, as ineptly.”

“The Labyrinth, a walled garden where humans tortured plants and flowers into growing in straight lines and sharp corners so unnatural that it hurt the mind to see, was east of Thorn’s court, on the very edge of the Center Kingdom.”

“You have only so many bottles in your life, never drink a bad one.”

“good friends are like stars you don't always see them but you know they are there.”

“If you don't have faith in your own abilities, it's never going to be anything more than potential”

“Immediately after graduating, with honors, from Emory University in the summer of 1990, McCandless dropped out of sight. He changed his name, gave the entire balance of a twenty-four-thousand-dollar savings account to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet. And then he invented a new life for himself, taking up residence at the ragged margin of our society, wandering across North America in search of raw, transcendent experience.”