Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
The friends whom I have are invaluable, and although not numerous they are sufficient for my enjoyment; and the texture of my own mind renders me very indifferent to the rest of the world.
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.
I have spent my life on the road waking in a pleasant, or not so pleasant hotel, and setting off every morning after breakfast hoping to discover something new and repeatable, something worth writing about.
What interests me is being alive and being with friends that I care about and being as creative as I can given circumstance.
I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life.
My ideal is to write most of the day, then go running, find friends and socialise all evening; my mind recharges with human contact.