Lawrence O'Donnell Quotes

If I need a bit of RI&IR, I'd go to the Maldives because technology can't reach you.

Believe me, there's nothing I would like to do more than disappear for a while.

Berlin would be a great place to have no cell phone, I think. Especially if you were able to live in a central location.

I need to go someplace faraway that doesn't have telephones and doesn't have a record player and doesn't have movie theaters and people walking down the street in order to not do anything.

Going off the grid is always good for me. It's the way that I've started books and finished books and gotten myself out of deadline dooms and things.

Short of taking monastic vows or trekking into the Kalahari, a freighter passage might just offer what our relentlessly connected age has made difficult, if not impossible: splendid isolation.

Seriously, how many places on this planet exist in which you get to say to your boss, 'Sorry, but I'm leaving to climb a mountain, and I won't have Wi-Fi or cell service for a week.'

I packed my bags and I moved to Bangkok, Thailand. I spent a year there like completely isolated, no Wi-Fi.

You play one game after another, meet new people every day, and travel a lot. That is why I try to disconnect and relax as soon as I get some time off.

It's very powerful to shut down your computer and escape into the real world.

I just love to disconnect from everything sometimes.

Sometimes you need that time away to disconnect from social media.

Take Time Out. It's not a real vacation if you're reading email or calling in for messages.

I think it's nice sometimes not to be plugged in 24/7 to email and the Internet and everything else. It's nice to get away.

If I have to spend a lot of time on planes, I try to think of this as time off. In certain ways, it's more restful than home: no Internet, no phones, no interruptions.

I love to deer hunt and fish and drive down the back roads in my truck. All those things basically equal freedom to me - and not having to return that message or call from my record company or management.

I do become a recluse once in a while. It's so nice to just be at home and to not have to deal with the outside world.

I've just been away for a week, and I dropped my BlackBerry in the sea while I was messing around with the kids, so no one can reach me. Blissful. I heartily recommend it.

The Sanctuary at Two Rivers offers a much needed escape or retreat from the fast paced, modern lifestyle we have all become accustomed to, with its exquisite beauty, serenity, and raw nature. Costa Rica was the perfect place for developing such an important project.

Aeroplane journeys give me quiet time to read and sleep; it's like being unplugged from the earth.

But Portugal has a peaceful feel about it. I sit on the terrace overlooking the vineyard there and I feel cut off from the world. You need that sort of thing.

I have a place in Costa Rica that is in the middle of the jungle. There's no Internet. There's no TV. Do I work there? Hell no.

I'd love a day devoid of responsibilities. I've often thought about going to a hotel just to have a day away from everything.

I think I'd go mad if I didn't have a place to escape to.

My mind is constantly going. For me to completely relax, I gotta get rid of my cell phone.