Michael Arad Quotes

When you get into a hotel room, you lock the door, and you know there is a secrecy, there is a luxury, there is fantasy. There is comfort. There is reassurance.

Mostly, I'm totally happy in my own space at home with the door closed with my family and friends.

When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.

If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want - I go to the bathroom.

Behind my door at home, that's when I'm relaxed, and that's when I can allow the emotions or whatever - to feel just what I want to feel - so a lot of people don't know me in that respect. I need a bit of space, a bit of a place to come home to and not have to pretend or perform anymore, where I'm just myself.

It was enough just to sit there without words.

I just go in my back garden. It's the only place where people don't come and bother you.

I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.

It's amazing living alone. I'm very lucky. It's like a refuge.

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

The presence of a bed changes the way people interact.

I love the intimacy of TV. I love the fact that you don't necessarily have the pressure of an audience or anyone around watching it - just you and it.

My happy place is my bedroom. I love it.

When we go to sleep ordinarily, we're doing something really private. It's kind of an intimate, private connection with our sort of physical humanity.

The sole purpose of the bedroom is to melt away any stressors.

To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

Blessed books—they’re a place to be alone, and no one else can come in.

Each evening, I ached for the shelter of my tent, for the smallest sense that something was shielding me from the entire rest of the world, keeping me safe not from danger, but from vastness itself. I loved the dim, clammy dark of my tent, the cozy familiarity of the way I arranged my few belongings all around me each night.

I just want silence... Jesus, it doesn't mean I don't like you. It just means right now, I like silence more.

I have not a desire but a need for solitude.

Cultivating quietness is a missing discipline today...the quietness needed to nurture an inner life hid in Christ.

Getting a room's not always enough. Sometimes you gotta close the door.

It is best to meet in a cul-de-sac, A palace of velvet With windows of mirrors. There one is safe, There are no family photographs, No rings through the nose, no cries.

I've been living alone for so long, everything about me’s private. I’m surprised anyone’s able to understand a word I say.