"It’s like I was playing some kind of game, but the rules don’t make any sense to me. They’re being made up by all the wrong people. I mean no one makes them up. They seem to make themselves up."
"‘Boys, you must strive to find your own voice. Because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all. Thoreau said, “Most men lead lives of quiet desperation.” Don’t be resigned to that. Break out! ‘"
"I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life to put to rout all that was not life; and not, when I had come to die, discover that I had not lived."