“I spent the whole evening sitting before a mirror to keep myself company.”

“That was the thing about tragedy. It was just sitting there, keeping you company, waiting. And you had absolutely no idea.”

“The personal computer… went to individuals first before it went to corporations… The corporations are sitting, wishing this whole friggin' thing [Electric cars] to go away. Which is exactly what the computer companies' attitude was to personal computers.”

“He spent the whole time sitting on a log in the woodshed, sometimes starting straight ahead with the fixity of a blind man who knows that even if he turns his head in the other direction he will still not see anything”

“I wasn't a misanthrope and I wasn't a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a small space and smoke and drink. I had always been good company for myself.”

“I also did some jail time a few years ago. Spent a whole summer in jail reading books. I pumped a ton of new knowledge and new thinking into myself.”

“When I look in the mirror, I just want to like myself… And if I like myself, then I look good.”

“I love being a beautiful woman when I look at myself in the mirror.”

“A man is known by the company he keeps. A company is known by the men it keeps.”

“I aspire to know when best to walk or eat, which music I need, and how to keep myself sitting as I am now, stubbornly enraptured with doing practically nothing.”