Quotes by : Michael Finkel

One's desire to be alone, biologists have found, is partially genetic and to some degree measurable.....

Knight's disdain for Thoreau was bottomless - 'he had no deep insight into nature'...

It's possible that Knight believed he was one of the few sane people left. He was confounded by the idea....

In 1988, a cave explorer named Véronique Le Guen volunteered for an extreme experiment: to live alone....

Modern life seems set up so that we can avoid loneliness at all costs, but maybe it's worthwhile to face....

The American essayist William Deresiewicz wrote that "no real excellence, personal or social, artistic,....

Language and hearing are seated in the cerebral cortex, the folded gray matter that covers the first....

Knight seemed to weigh the precision of every word he used, careful as a poet. Even his handwritten letters....

That silence intimidates puzzles me. Silence is to me normal, comfortable." Later he added, "I will admit....

Modern life seems set up so that we can avoid loneliness at all costs, but maybe it's worthwhile to face....