Pritchard was lonely, and like most lonely souls, he saw happy couples everywhere.

Love cannot be reduced to a catalogue of reasons why, and a catalogue of reasons cannot be put together into love.

Solitude is a condition best enjoyed in company.

for Pop, who sees the starsand Jude, who hears their music

He liked lonely places, because he never really felt alone.

Suffering, he thought later, could rob a man of his empathy, could turn him selfish, could make him depreciate all other sufferers.

We observe that one of the great attributes of discretion is that it can mask ignorance of all the most common and lowly varieties, and Walter Moody was nothing if not excessively discreet.

I wish to be able to call myself deserving of my lot, ' Moody said carefully. 'Luck is by nature underserved.

What an unrequited love it is, this thirst! But is it love, when it is unrequited?

This universe is your abode

It's hard to distinguish when I was actually struggling from when I only felt like I was struggling - which was pretty much always.

I'm superstitious a little bit.

He had even read Pride and Prejudice--although he had thought that many of the heroine's problems would have been solved if someone had simply strangled her mother.

A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.

I'm smart but not enough--just smart enough to have problems.

Why do they call it losing your virginity, anyway? It's Not Like I don't know where I left it." "You'd be surprised how many people don't.

The barn where I work, it's only 15 minutes or so from Harvard square, so It's very close to the center of Boston, but it happens to be a total oasis. It's completely quiet in there.

I remember watching the Olympics at home as a kid. It was one my Dad's dreams to win an Olympic medal.