Rachel

“Perhaps future generations will hack the system, move at will between storytelling technologies. As for me, I was retreating from the social option. I began taking myself to the water’s edge in order to read—away from the phone and the terrible Cyclops eye of my modem. On the seawall, bundled against wind and propped up with a sweater for a seat, I rediscovered a frame of mind that I was in danger of forgetting—real, trance-like reading that obliterated my anxieties, my fussing daily life.”
― Michael Harris, Solitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World

“He who has a why to live for can bear with almost any how.”
― Hector Garcia Puigcerver, Ikigai: The Japanese secret to a long and happy life

“To be happily alone is to affirm one’s faith in the love of others.”
― Michael Harris, Solitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World

“Switching our allegiance from one Big Brother to the next cannot purchase independent thought.”
― Michael Harris, Solitude: In Pursuit of a Singular Life in a Crowded World