I think that an anthill is better than a nest … that in the anthill among a hundred thousand or a million you are freer than in a nest, where all sit around and look at one another, waiting until scientists finally discover ways to make us mind readers. … the psychology of the nest is loathsome to me, and I always sympathize with one who flees his nest, even if he flees into an anthill, where it may be crowded but one can find solitude – that most natural, most worthy state of man, that precious and intense state of being conscious of the world and of oneself.
