We take for granted the need to escape the self. Yet the self can also be a refuge. In totalitarian countries the great hunger is for private life. Absorption in the minutiae of an individual existence is the only refuge from the apocalyptic madhouse staged by maniacal saviors of humanity.

The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in Am…

One wonders whether a generation that demands instant satisfaction of all its needs and instant solution of the world's problems will produce anything of lasti…

Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not confor…

There's never gonna be a moment of truth for you While the world is watching All you need is the thing you forgotten And that's to learn to live with what you …

In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.

Preemptive boringness. Being one-dimensional is the most satisfying method of coping with out-of-control people - with any situation that's out of control ... …