"I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go."

"There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you."

"The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable."

"There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock"

"Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right."

"Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone."

"Do you hate people?” “I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around."

"Oh, Creator! Can monsters exist in the sight of him who alone knows how they were invented, how they invented themselves, and how they might not have invented themselves?"

"I walked the streets and tasted the golden sun that lay across the city."

"It's always easier to learn something than to use what you've learned. . . . You're alone when you're learning. But you always use it on other people. It's different when there are other people involved."

"...there has to be someone who is willing to do it, who is willing to take whatever risks are required. I don't think it can be done with money alone. The person has to be dedicated to the task. There has to be some other motivation."

"I always try to keep that feeling of being on the edge. I'm afraid of knowing too well and seeming mechanical."

"The mutual distrust between the men who were just awakened and those who were ending a long night gave everyone a feeling of estrangement."

"The loneliness in him was so keen that he was filled with terror. Usually he had a pint of bootleg white lightning. He drank the raw liquor and by daylight he was warm and relaxed."

"She did not know why she was sad, but because of this peculiar sadness, she began to realize she ought to leave the town."

"It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house."

"It wasn't like she was lonely and in fact – she had understood it all in every way except with her brain. Now she knew that she knew."

"And why did everyone persist in thinking the mute was exactly as they wanted him to be--when most likely it was all a very queer mistake?... In the battling tumult of voices he alone was silent."

"It was like she was so empty there wasn't even a feeling or thought in her."

"The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished....."

"My advice to you is this. Do not attempt to stand alone. ...The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone."

"Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone."

"I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands."

"I do not have any home. So why should I be homesick?"