“All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!”

“Something like fear chilled me as I sat there in the small hours alone-I say alone, for one who sits by a sleeper is indeed alone; perhaps more alone than he can realise.”

“There was something about having someone care about you like that that made you feel like you could never be totally alone.”

“It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death.”

“When you learn to read you will be born again… and you will never be quite so alone again.”

“Leave the Artillerymen alone, they are an obstinate lot.”

“After all, human beings are like that. When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone.”

“It is quite enough to pay taxes when you are not represented, let alone pay a fine if you object to this arrangement.”

“Whether she won or lost, she would continue to wrestle with life. It would not be with her own life alone but with all of life. Something had finally been released within her. And there it was, the sea.”

“Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics, you can leave politics alone, but politics won't leave you alone.”