"You have given me a great responsibility: to stay close to you, to be worthy of you and to exemplify what you are."

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I really am a recluse. I just enjoy watching the wind blow through the trees. In America someone who sits around and does that is at the bottom of the ladder, but in Japan, say, someone who goes up into the mountains is accorded great respect. I guess I am somewhere in between. I enjoy reclusion: it clears my mind.

— Robert M. Pirsig