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I've never been lonely. I've been in a room -- I've felt suicidal. I've been depressed. I've felt awful -- awful beyond all -- but I never felt that o...more

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I was alone with myself. And disgusting as I was it was better than being with somebody else, anybody else, all of them out there doing their pitiful ...more

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The old gal was only another lonely creature in a world that didn’t care

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...still, I’m lucky: I feast on solitude, I will never miss the crowd. I could read the great books but the great books don’t interest me. I sit in be...more

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Hey, Hank, I notice all the women around your place lately ... good looking stuff; you're doing all right.""Sam," I say, "that's not true; I am one of...more

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People need me. I fill them. If they can't see me for a while they get desperate, they get sick. But if I see them too often I get sick. It's hard to ...more

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I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.

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

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people need me. I fillthem. if they can't see mefor awhile the get desperate, they getsick.but if I see them too oftenI get sick. it's hard to feedwit...more

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I didn't like anything. Maybe I was afraid. That was it - I was afraid. I wanted to sit alone in a room with the shades down. I feasted upon that. I w...more

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there's no clarity.there was never meant to be clarity.

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darkness falls upon Humanityand faces become terriblethingsthat wanted more than therewas.all our days are marked withunexpectedaffronts - somedisastr...more

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sometimes all we need to be able to continue aloneare the deadrattling the wallsthat close us in.

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she slammed the door andwas gone.I looked at the closed doorand at the doorknoband strangelyI didn't feelalone.