You can't be a complete hermit, but you have to make sure you aren't influenced.

And we don't have the luxury of locking ourselves into a system that does not have flexibility. A rail system would have that lack of flexibility.

The committee thought the general manager was doing an outstanding job.

When you think like a hermit, you forget what you know.

In theory I can do almost anything; certainly I have been told how. In practice I do as little as possible. I pretend to myself that I would be quite happy in a hermit's cave, living on gruel, if someone else would make the gruel. Gruel, like so many other things, is beyond me.

His facial hair served not just as a calendar but also as a mask, absorbing the stares of others while allowing him a little privacy in plain sight. "I can hide behind it, I can play to stereotypes and assumptions. One of the benefits of being labeled a hermit is that it permits me strange behavior.