[first lines] Christopher McCandless: Mom! Mom! Help me.
Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.
[repeated line] Christopher: Where are we going?
People in power, they're so used to people kind of playing up to them.
Make your relationship your number-one priority.
I'd imagine my wedding as a fairy tale... huge, beautiful and white.
But perhaps there are in us forces other than mind and heart, other even than the senses - mysterious forces which take hold of us in the moments when the others are asleep; and perhaps it was such forces that Melchior had found in the depths of thos...
Poor Christopher-John had fallen into the hands of Miss. Daisy Crocker. I greatly sympathized him, but as in everything else, Christopher John tried to see the bright side in having to face such a shrew every morning. "Maybe she done changed," he sai...
Sarah Palin appears to have no testable core conviction except the belief (which none of her defenders denies that she holds, or at least has held and not yet repudiated) that the end of days and the Second Coming will occur in her lifetime. This com...
I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.
As a child, my father's architecture seemed to me to be industrial in a way. It seemed harsh and kind of chilly; I didn't respond to it.
The relationship between talent and management is uneasy, at best.
Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.
The everybody-loves-Jeff Bridges home base is, of course, 'The Big Lebowski.'
Americans are pragmatic, relatively uncomplicated, hearty and given to broad humor.
I want this book to be facts, to be important, to be history.
Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.
I don't design houses with the nuclear family idea because I don't believe in it as a concept.
We are very near the end, but have not and will not lose our good cheer.
I just have faith. It's just there. It's not any big deal.
Bush's faith in the rightness of his strategy in the broader war is deep-seated. It is a product of faith.
