Rob Patrick

“The richest person, Jefferies believed, is the one who works least. “Idleness,” he wrote, “is a great good.”
― Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The extraordinary story of the last true hermit

“noise and distraction are toxic.”
― Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The extraordinary story of the last true hermit

“culture that valued authors who wrote only of the literary media and its gossip so that the literary media would have no choice but to review their novels, delivering readers to them regardless of their quality, their ideas, and their style, to say nothing of their entertainment value.”
― Zoe Dubno, Happiness and Love

“If you have low levels of the pituitary peptide oxytocin—sometimes called the master chemical of sociability—and high quantities of the hormone vasopressin, which may suppress your need for affection, you tend to require fewer interpersonal relationships”
― Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The extraordinary story of the last true hermit