Garry Trudeau Quotes

I think there is a very powerful wish that we all have of being self-contained and having sort of opted out or choosing to remove ourselves from society and to have no ties and no obligations, and even no possessions. To be free in a particular way.

People like a look into the lifestyle of someone who has a lot of freedom.

You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.

Remember me? I'm back to my old self again. No responsibilities, no attachments, no encumbrances. I don't want to own anything, love anyone, or get too attached to people, places or things. It's a rule that seems to work well for me.

He who is alone is happy. Do good to all, like everyone, but do not love anyone. It is a bondage, and bondage brings only misery. Live alone in your mind - that is happiness. To have nobody to care for and never minding who cares for one is the way to be free.

My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.

I wanted to figure out a way of living where I didn't have to be in an office every day.

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

I live at home and, if I want to start work at 11 o'clock, I can.

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

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.

It was a matter of not living lavishly but enjoying what you had, growing things with your hands, working hard, but not being tied to a nine-to-five job, and generally feeling that there's more to life than money.

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

I didn't want to start relying on what someone else thought was right. It was easier to go away all together.

I work as often as I want and yet I'm free as a bird.

I always prided myself on the fact that I could live out of milk crates forever. It was kind of my way of detaching from materialism.

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.

I'm as much my own master as anyone can be, without being the master of others. I can write anywhere - all I need is a couple of hours of solitude and a computer, and I can write a chapter. Since my work is portable, I can live anywhere I like.

You're not sorry to go, of course. With people like us our home is where we are not... No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.

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.

The philosopher Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king. Said Aristippus, "If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils." Said Diogenes, "Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.

And when you don't have to talk to the person next to you, that's real clean. Takes a certain thing not to try to keep anything up, not to have to entertain one another.

Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere.

you can survive only if nothing is necessary to you

One of the most important of life´s lessons is to learn independance, to understand freedom. This means independence from attachments, from results, from opinions, and from expectations. Breaking attachments leads to freedom, but breaking attachments does not mean abandoning a loving and meaningful relationship, a relationship that nourrishes your soul. It means ending dependency on any person or thing. Love is never a dependency.