“The Howard Hughes thing hadn’t actually sounded like such a bad deal until about...oh, eight thirty-five this morning. Something about having his ex carry him to the bathroom and help him wash his balls just took all the fun out of becoming an eccentric recluse.”
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“She thought, I am becoming a recluse. Yes, that's it, that is the way.”
“I told you I was going to retire from the world. That's still on. You remember that.”
“She could hide in this small, dull life.”
“It was my first time going out in two hundred years. I walked along slowly.”
“The hermit is the person to whom the judgment of a society matters the most.”
“A loner is a person who has signed up to be banished to a lifetime of solitude.”