Ann

“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

“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

“I think he’s unkind because it’s easier to be angry than frightened,”
― Lily Brooks-Dalton, Good Morning, Midnight

“And anyway, when was a journal ever honest? “It either tells a lot of truths to cover a single lie,” he said, “or a lot of lies to cover a single truth.”
― Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit