Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.

I don't miss politics.

Fear invariably and universally induces disengagement, and disengagement is negative division of labor.

I'm used to living in a disassociated universe.

I have X'd myself from your world.

More and more, I find myself turning away from everything relating to contemporary society. I don't know how healthy it is, but I am creating a very private bubble that I live in.

My first two novels featured narrators who were aggressively unattached: They couldn't form any sort of genuine relationship. So I had thoroughly explored the geography of loneliness and isolation.

You can meet lots of actors who are in their own world and do their own thing, and they have no idea what's going on and they don't know anyone's name around them.

I feel like I'm in my own world: in the world but not a part of it.

Feinstein doesn't interact with the people at all, and I think it breeds cynicism.

I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.

I don't weigh into politics.

I don't try to communicate with my 'audience'. I don't bother with that any more. I used to try to have conversations with people, but it's futile.

I don't want to be close to politics.

There are no more vices left - I don't drink or smoke and at a party, after a while, I am lost. I don't dance to the beat of that drum anymore.

I don't know what's the matter with me, why I'm so adept at distance, why I feel so remote from things, why life feels like a rumor.

I actually, honestly don't look into politics that much.

People who feel alienated have little trust in the institutions of our society. This adds to the wider sense of disaffection and makes it more difficult for our politics to work.

Apathy in youth culture is pretty stark.

My face, my self, what would they mean to anybody? Just another stiff. So this self of mine passes some other's self on the street - what do we have to say to each other? Hey there! Hi ya!That's about it. Nobody raises a hand. No one turns around to take another look.

I would be at home reading, because I felt so disconnected from humanity.

So this was the rest of his life. It felt like a party to which he'd been invited, but at an address he couldn't actually locate. Someone must be having fun at it, this life of his; only, right at the moment, it wasn't him.

Life has never interested me so much as the escape from life.

A lot of people enjoy being dead. But they are not dead, really. They're just backing away from life.

What we're all looking for is someone who doesn't live there, just pays for it.