“I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.”
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I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature how words alone can get your heart doing that.
I know there are lots of positives in the evolution of technology, but I also think it will be responsible for the end of a unique character, of a specific kind of geographical culture. The world is getting so small, and mass production is getting so big. Everything is in danger of becoming the same.
I need some isolation, it's necessary to me, that's just who I am. I need to be left alone.
The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.