David Thompson

“To speak little is natural. Therefore a gale does not blow a whole morning nor does a downpour last a whole day.”
― Lao Tzu

“As I moved about the room I would encounter that silver wedge of a moon at this window or that, like some old beggar who wished to be invited in.”
― George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo

“Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“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