Top 15 Gary Paulsen Quotes

Initially, he worried that he might be going crazy. But then he decided if you felt you were crazy you weren't really crazy because he had heard somewhere that crazy people didn't know they were insane.

I am full of tough hope

Stories are like a river that flows - you dip a bucket in it

We don’t like to think of ourselves as prey — it is a lessening thought — but the truth is that in our arrogance and so-called knowledge we forget that we are not unique. We are part of nature as much as other animals, and some animals — sharks, fever-bearing mosquitoes, wolves and bear, to name but a few — perceive us as a food source, a meat supply, and simply did not get the memo about how humans are superior.

It can be shocking, humbling, painful, very edifying and sometimes downright fatal to run into such an animal.

Everything was green, so green it went into him.

never say never

He had learned this: Nothing that lived, nothing that walked or crawled or flew or swam or slithered or oozed — nothing, not one thing on God’s earth wanted to die. No matter what people thought or said about chickens or fish or cattle — they all wanted to live.

moose was a moose.

The burning eyes did not come back, but memories did, came flooding in. The words. Always the words. Divorce.

And he's never met anyone like Harris, his unruly daredevil of a cousin.

Simple. Keep it simple. I am Brian Robeson. I have been in a plane crash. I am going to find some food. I am going to find some berries.

"Because every day in my journal I write down the best thing that's happened to me. And today it's you." When
When Johanna said that, I felt light, warm in that spot just above my stomach where it usually feels clenched and tight.

Maybe it was always that way, discoveries happened because they needed to happen.

If his mother hadn’t begun to see him and forced the divorce, Brian wouldn’t be here now.

But the beauty of the woods, the incredible joy of it is too alluring to be ignored, and I could not stand to be away from it — indeed, still can't — and so I ran dogs simply to run dogs; to be in and part of the forest, the woods