He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.

No human being can go on living in the same house with a pigeon, a pigeon is the epitomy of chaos and anarchy, a pigeon that whizzes around unpredictably, that sets it's claws in you, picks at your eyes.

He had escaped the abhorrent taint! He was truly completely alone! He was the only human being in the world!

He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.

Not a visible enthusiasm but a hidden one, an excitement burning with a cold flame.

...he came to the conclusion that you cannot depend on people, and that you can live in peace only if you keep them at arm's length.

He decided in favor of life out of sheer spite and malice.