I have a nice little office, with a nice little window in it, but I do basically spend huge amounts of time in what you could consider solitary confinement.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you.
I've found throughout the years that I needed a place where I can go with no TV, no computer, no phone and just have no distractions and just be able to sit and think and just not be disturbed.
It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
I have a horror of being in confined spaces.
I keep a hotel room in my town, although I have a large house. And I go there at about 5:30 in the morning, and I start working. And I don't allow anybody to come in that room. I work on yellow pads and with ballpoint pens. I keep a Bible, a thesaurus, a dictionary, and a bottle of sherry. I stay there until midday.
You don't want the office to be a completely relaxing place. You want it to be a vibrant place.
I am jailed, with around 200 other inmates, in a wide hall that looks like a warehouse.
I'd quite like to have one place where I stay put. And I don't like living in cities all the time. In order to have ideas, you have to have some peace and quiet.
I wanted to figure out a way of living where I didn't have to be in an office every day.
I don't have an office. I sit in a cubicle with everybody else. That's partly so no one can ask for an office, which in a fast-growing company isn't practical. But it's also so I can keep my finger on the pulse of how people are feeling.