Billy Burke Quotes

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.

All of our technology is completely unnecessary to a happy life.

You don't need money to be free. You can just say if you don't need stuff, you're always free.

We gave up having a TV last year. I am out of the loop. Life is way better than TV. I recommend it to anyone who has forgotten they have one.

I want to be able to leave my phone at home.

I ain't got a credit card, a mobile phone or a computer. Call me sentimental. I think that's a whole world of trouble I ain't got no business setting foot in. And you know what? It feels good.

Someone who goes with a half a loaf of bread to a small place that fits like a nest around him, someone who wants no more, who is not himself longed for by anyone else. He is a letter to everyone. You open it. It says, Live.

It's funny, everything is so much easier when you do it yourself.

I don't even own a television. I'm proud of that.

Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.

When I was a student in the '60s, I dreamt of making a house 7 feet by 7 feet, as a dream of freedom, of self-moderation.

I dream of not having access to technology. I think it's a very wonderful time that we have found ourselves in, in terms of access to information, but alone time is better for some personalities than others. And I would very gladly give it up. I think I'd do very well.

I just live my life.

The less I have, the freer I am to do whatever I want to do.

Stay small and control it yourself.

I'm a bit of a caveman - I don't go out into the digital space very often. I lie facedown on the grass and count how many bugs I can find.

I don't go to movies, I don't own a television, I don't buy magazines and I try not to receive mail, so I'm not really aware of popular culture.

I was the last person to get high-speed Internet, I was the last person to get an iPod, the last person to get an iPhone... I travel to India for one month out of the year and I don't have a phone there, so I can go without, which is beautiful, too.

I don't watch TV. I don't use a computer, a fax or a cellphone.

I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.

Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.

I live and work alone and travel light, relying largely on my memory and making a point of letting intuition guide my way.

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.

Astride a horse I am not, nor camel-like carry a load, Subjects I have none, nor follow any sultan's code; I worry not for what exists, nor fret for what is lost, I breathe with extreme ease, and live at very little cost.

I don't listen to music. I don't watch television, I don't read.