Katherine May

I will unashamedly say that difficult, complicated people can achieve great things if they’re allowed to create their own conditions, and if they’re allowed their time alone by the sea.

we sense a kind of absence. It is not so easy to articulate, but it carries its own dark middle-of-the-night fear, its own harrowing.
It’s the sense that we have become disconnected from meaning in a way that we don’t even know how to perceive. We sense it when we worry that we cannot stem the flow of our materialism. We sense it when the pull of our smartphones feels a lot like an addiction. We sense it when we realise that our lives are lived in the controlled climate of air conditioning, but we still don’t want to feel the weather outside.

Constantly surrounded by conversation, we are nevertheless chronically lonely.