Supertramp Quotes

The fragility of crystal is not a weakness but a fineness. My parents understood that fine crystal glass had to be cared for or may be shattered. But when it came to my brother, they didn't seem to know or care that their course of their secret action brought the kind of devastation that could cut them. Their fraudulent marriage and our father's denial of his other son was for Chris a murder of every day's truth. He felt his whole life turned like a river suddenly reversing the direction of its flow. Suddenly running uphill. These revelations struck at the core of Chris's sense of identity. They made his entire childhood seem like fiction. Chris never told them he knew and made me promise silence as well. ~ Jon Krakauer

Two years he walks the earth. No phone, no pool, no pets, no cigarettes. Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road. Escaped from Atlanta. Thou shalt not return, 'cause "the West is the best." And now after two rambling years comes the final and greatest adventure. The climactic battle to kill the false being within and victoriously conclude the spiritual pilgrimage. Ten days and nights of freight trains and hitchhiking bring him to the Great White North. No longer to be poisoned by civilization he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become lost in the wild.
Alexander Supertramp, May 1992 ~ Christopher McCandless

So you think your life has become a catastrophe

Oh, but it has to be for you to grow, boy. ~ Supertramp

I have a college education. I'm not destitute. I'm living like this by choice. ~ Alexander Supertramp Chris McCandless

Just get out and do it. Just get out and do it. ~ Alexander Supertramp Chris McCandless

Happiness only real when shared. ~ Christopher McCandless

The greatest art is unsophisticated
The greatest wisdom is childish."

"Love gives freedom. It doesn't own. ~ Miss Supertramp