"The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married."
"I know the dark delight of being strange,/ The penalty of difference in the crowd,/ The loneliness of wisdom among fools . . ."
"The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness."
"One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness, two of barrenness, and three of sodomy."
"Man's loneliness is but his fear of life."
"I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started."
"Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work a"
"It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs."
"There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house."
"You're very affected by your early life, ... I think if you've ever had that feeling of loneliness, of being an outsider or whatever, it doesn't leave you. You can be happy or successful or whatever, but that thing still stays inside you."