Rob Patrick

“Solitude bestows an increase in something valuable. I can’t dismiss that idea. Solitude increased my perception. But here’s the tricky thing: when I applied my increased perception to myself, I lost my identity. There was no audience, no one to perform for. There was no need to define myself. I became irrelevant.”
― Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

“Time amid the silence of nature, in other words, makes you smarter.”
― Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

“The only thing any of us can do completely on our own is to have the start of a good idea.”
― Michael Lewis, The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy

“Trump’s budget, like the social forces behind it, is powered by a perverse desire—to remain ignorant.”
― Michael Lewis, The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy