"The oldest, most widespread stories in the world are adventure stories, about human heroes who venture into the myth-countries at the risk of their lives, and bring back tales of the world beyond men...It could be argued...that the narrative art itself arose from the need to tell an adventure; that man risking his life in perilous encounters constitutes the original definition of what is worth talking about."
From The Adventurer, by Paul Zweig

"Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible"--
From The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm

I got this quote from an interview with Jon Krakauer from The New New Journalism. A fun book for process junkies. Lots of interesting work habits.

A pretty effective cover design as well.