Rick Knudsen

“If you do just a little research, it is going to become evident to you that anyone that ever accomplished anything, did not know how they were going to do it. They only knew they were going to do it.”
― Rhonda Byrne, The Secret

“Maybe that's what growing up means, in the end - you go far enough in the direction of - somewhere - and you realise that you've neutered the capacity of the term home to mean anything. [...] We don't get an endless number of orbits away from the place where meaning first arises, that treasure-house of first experiences. What we learn, instead, is that our adventures secure us in our isolation. Experience revokes our licence to return to simpler times. Sooner or later, there's no place remotely like home.”
― Gregory Maguire, Out of Oz

“Unlike Muir and Thoreau, McCandless went into the wilderness not primarily to ponder nature or the world at large but, rather, to explore the inner country of his own soul.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“del hurto y del asalto a los cargos y con el monopolio de la Bolsa de los trueques, no debe hacer olvidar que su repugnancia por la brutalidad gratuita, su asombrosa conciencia de la subsistencia de una, cuando menos potencial, dignidad humana, hacían de los griegos del Lager el núcleo nacional más coherente y, bajo este punto de vista, el más civil.”
― Primo Levi, Trilogía de Auschwitz