Sometimes he tried too hard to make sense of the world, to figure out why people were bad to each other so often.
Jon KrakauerIt was titillating to brush up against the enigma of mortality, to steal a glimpse across its forbidden frontier. Climbing was a magnificient activity, I firmly believed, not in spite of the inherent perils, but precisely because of them.
Jon KrakauerThe sad end he met in Afghanistan was more accurately a function of his stubborn idealism - his insistence on trying to do the right thing. In which case it wasn't a tragic flaw that brought Tillman down, but a tragic virtue.
Jon KrakauerThere is nothing glamorous or romantic about war. It's mostly about random pointless death and misery.
Jon Krakauer