Ann

“Human society has been mostly an immoral violent bedlam,”
― Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

“Freud said there’s no such thing as a joke—a joke is an expression of veiled hostility.”
― Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

“The word “noise” is derived from the Latin word nausea.”
― 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