Ann

“One becomes free, Socrates seems to have taught, not by fulfilling all desires but by eliminating desire.”
― Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

“Beware the barrenness of a busy life”
― Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

“But the label ‘crazy’ bothers me. Annoys me. Because it prevents response.” When someone asks if you’re crazy, Knight lamented, you can either say yes, which makes you crazy, or you can say no, which makes you sound defensive, as if you fear that you really are crazy. There’s no good answer.”
― Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

“I have become solitary,” wrote the eighteenth-century French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, “because to me the most desolate solitude seems preferable to the society of wicked men which is nourished only in betrayals and hatred.”
― Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit