The whole world is a personality cult.

We care. We feel. We think. We do not always miss the absent one. We cannot always come when called. Being friends with a loner requires patience and the wisdom that distance does not mean dislike.

The loner who looks fabulous is one of the most vulnerable loners of all.

After what others would call a fun day out together, we feel as if we have been at the Red Cross, donating blood.

We do not require company. In varying degrees, it bores us, drains us, makes our eyes glaze over. Overcomes us like a steamroller. Of course, the rest of the world doesn't understand.

Writing is done alone. People do not talk about the things they do alone.

Those things which are precious are saved only by sacrifice.

Writing to impress others is the surest path to pretentious mediocrity.

I don't get insomnia, but I do get the odd night when I can't unwind.

Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.

Very few people, thank God, look like the pictures of them which are published in the papers and the weekly magazines.

If logic itself is created rather than being inborn, it follows that the first task of education is to form reasoning.

Internationally, ancient Rome and Greece cultures are just so fascinating. I don't think audiences will ever tire of it, because it's such an advanced society.

Prison is the only form of public housing that the government has truly invested in over the past 5 decades

'My Life' is not an autobiography. It's just music.

That a whole part of the middle class detests me... is utterly normal. I would be troubled if the contrary were true.