“Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like.”

“None of my friends have any respect for me. … No, most of these people thought of me like… some money….”

“So the only other reason you should ever have a conversation, or be friends, with anyone on the left is — and not even be friends — if you are in public in front of a large audience, and then your goal is to humiliate them as badly as possible. That is the goal of the conversation, the goal is not to convince the person, the goal is not to make friends with that person.”

“The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me--I have no others.”

“I have lost friends, some by death… others by sheer inability to cross the street.”

“One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends is that three out of four murders are committed by people who know the victim.”

“Adversity shows whether we have friends, or only the shadows of friends.”

“I survive at the edge of friends circles.”

“Talking to people makes me feel like sleeping. Only my ghostly and imaginary friends, only the conversations I have in my dreams, are genuinely real and substantial.”

“Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. --Bernard, The Waves”