Quotes by : Michael Finkel

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

Passion must be subject to reason; emotions lead one astray. "There was no one to complain to in the....

I'm not used to seeing people's faces. There's too much information there. Aren't you aware of it? Too....

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

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

Silence, it appears, is not the opposite of sound. It is another world altogether, literally offering....

There was no one to complain to in the woods, so I did not complain,' Knight said.

Soon he essentially stopped talking. "I am retreating into silence as a defensive mode," he mentioned.....

Not for a moment did he consider keeping a journal. He would never allow anyone to read his private thoughts;....

He never bothered listening to sports; the bored him, every one of them.