155 Quotes by Gary Paulsen

I wish I had a dollar for every hour I’ve spent in the library,” he always says. I have to agree- we’d probably never have to worry about money again.

In a real situation, like when I was here before, there were things wrong – going wrong. The plane didn’t land and set me on the shore. It crashed. A man was dead. I was hurt. I didn’t know anything. Nothing at all. I was, maybe, close to death and now we’re out here going la-de-da, I’ve got a fish; la-de-da, there are some more berries.

As if my whole life up to that time had somehow been safe and now I would ruin all that because, you know, catamarans flip over.

The mosquitoes. Tearing at him, clouds of them, the awful, ripping, thick masses of the small monsters trying to bleed him dry.

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. He.

Misery is optional.

Well, he’d actually never heard anybody say it. But he felt that it should be true. There.

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

Perhaps when I am grown I will not know anything. Perhaps that is the way it works, the way it is with growing. When you grow, you start to unlearn things.