I was living in a crummy basement apartment, having just left my marriage and the suffocating feeling of leading a life that was not my own. I couldn’t understand how it had come to that.

“People have so goddam much to walk away from. Every time I find myself wondering what we’re walking toward, I tell myself that’s beside the point.

The power of departure. Building and leaving. There’s no contradiction between them. Being able to give up what you’re building because something else has beckoned you toward the true life. The true life, today, beyond market neutrality and beyond the old, outdated hierarchical ideas.