Kim Harrison Quotes

I never answer if someone knocks on my door and only the band and my manager have my phone number. In any case my phone doesn't ring so I never notice it. I occasionally just walk past and pick it up to see if anyone's there.

Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get.

I won't even let anyone in my house. I'm a private person.

I recommend hiding for a good year and having no pregnancy style. That's what I recommend. If you can do it, hide. Never leave the house.

I am greatly pleased with the public, authentic isolation in which we two, you and I, now find ourselves. It is wholly in accord with our attitude and our principles.

The reason to have a home is to keep certain people in and everyone else out.

I want to be a mouse in a mousehole.

I wish we were alone,” he says. “I almost always wish that,” I say.

Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone.

Today's status symbol is the Palm Pilot; tomorrow's is not having one, because you have a whole staff keeping track of you. It's like a winter coat in Washington: The ultimate status symbol isn't cashmere, it's no coat at all on the snowiest day of the year - because that means you have a car and driver waiting for you, so why do you need a coat?

The real stars of society are tired of appearing there. He who is curious to gaze at them must often migrate to another hemisphere, where they are more or less alone.

Remember, you are all alone in the kitchen and no one can see you.

Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.

Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever alone.

Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool no where but in's own house.

Sometimes you just need your privacy.

No loose fish enters our quiet bay.

Their leaving made me melancholy, though I also felt something like relief when they disappeared into the dark trees. I hadn't needed to get anything from my pack; I'd only wanted to be alone. Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren't a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was.

...And you're the only one who knows.

Privacy and loneliness were the traditional luxuries accorded to a skipper.

There should be at least a room or some corner where no one will find you and disturb you or notice you.

Because after a time having a secret and nobody knowing you have a secret us no fun. And although you dont want others to know what the secret is, you want them to at least know you have one.

My Dad used to say that the balance of the world relied on all of the monks who were living outside of society in creative isolation. I don't quite understand the ascetic life or the private life or the monastic private life. But I definitely understand privacy's value.

I want to be alone ... I just want to be alone.