Isolationist Ponderer Gifts

The sun

"Day 4,261... I don’t know how much longer I can survive. Still no signs of civilization. Food is scarce and I fear the wound on my ankle is infected. Still, all this pales in comparison to the horror of having to be anywhere at any particular time."

"Needs to get a life"

'If no man is an island, then what the hell is no woman?'

Cellphone Islands

"...I don't believe in the past or the future. I don't even believe in right now. Everyone remembers the past differently. Everyone imagines the future differently. Everyone even disagrees about what's happening right now. So who's to say tomorrow what you and I did tonight?"

'Why don't you try seeing it from your point of view?'

"May I offer a very different scenario?"

"Definitive." "Compelling." "Persuasive." "Upside down."

'And I thought I had a big egg to lay.'

Artist chained to his drawing.

'I say we try it.'

'Congratulations, you've got the job. Unfortunately though, you'll be constantly late, and we'll fire you in two months.'

"It is just as the Oracle foretold!"

"OK...for today I want a 500-word essay on what you know about nothing."

The Portrait of Dorian Gray after one year in lockdown.

"I'll have dessert first."

'A-1 security from crime ... but can't stand the isolation.'

The sad case of the blind-men and the elephant.

Me when by BDD shows up

Sign pointing to 'hindsight' and 'foresight'

'He's always looking for an argument!'

'You'll be going on a long journey this Christmas.'

'The hardest part of being a street crazy is picking each day's sign.'

Fortune teller sees impending doom

"Half full, or half empty? Do you want a positive spin, or a negative spin?"

"Never mind how other see you, how do you see yourself?"

The End is Near.

Man looking down long telescope at himself.

Man looking at a vending machine with a hand sticking out of it and a sign that reads "Put'er there buddy".

"One man's dirty water is another man's Earl Grey."

A psychic predicts the discovery of gluten.

Never being able to think of the right thing to say at the right time phobia.

"It kind of puts it all in perspective, doesn't it?"

A self-filling prophecy.