I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

- Jack London

Into the Wild

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods; 

There is a rapture on the lonely shore; 

There is society, where none intrudes, 

By the deep sea, and music in its roar; 

I love not man the less, but Nature more...

- Lord Byron

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me.
- Jonathan Safran Foer