“Come to the book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it and draw your own map.”

“Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own map.... A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. ”

“but remember, nothing comes without a price. Our paths are not mapped; they’re made.”

“Maps are essential. Planning a journey without a map is like building a house without drawings.”

“Life is a journey that gives you the liberty to draw your own map, and choose your own route.”

“In coming to Alaska, McCandless yearned to wander uncharted country, to find a blank spot on the map. In 1992, however, there were no more blank spots on the map—-not in Alaska, not anywhere. But Chris, with his idiosyncratic logic, came up with an elegant solution to this dilemma: He simply got rid of the map. In his own mind, if nowhere else, the terra would thereby remain incognita.”