I didn't want to be alone. I just wanted to be free of obligations, most of which asserted themselves digitally.

I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.

In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.