“It's a long ride home with nothing but me for company. I bore myself sometimes. Not often. Just now and again.”
“Running the company for the shareholders often reduces its long-term growth potential.”
“Sometimes I'm so deeply buried under self-reproaches that I long for a word of comfort to help me dig myself out again.”
“People frequently bore me, sometimes amuse me, most often irritate me, but rarely intrigue me.”
“But it's peculiar, as soon as I am in the midst of nature and by myself, everything that is base and trivial vanishes without trace. On such days nothing scares me; and this helps me again and again.”
“ I used myself, let nothing use me. Like being on a private dole, sometimes more like cutting bricks in Egypt. What life there was, was mine, now and again to lay one hand on a warm brick and touch the sun's ghost with economical joy.”