“How can you be lonely? You've got yourself, haven't you? If you ever lose yourself, then you'll really be lonely…”

“Don't attach yourself to anyone who shows you the least bit of attention because you're lonely. Lonliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best thing you can do it know yourself… know what you want.”

“Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.”

“What was the point in such loneliness among people. At least if you were by yourself, you had a good reason to be lonely.”

“You can tell yourself that you would be willing to lose everything you have in order to get something you want. But it's a catch-22: all of those things you're willing to lose are what make you recognizable. Lose them, and you've lost yourself.”

“Writing is a lonely way of life. You shut yourself up in your study and work and work.”

“Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.”

“Are you or aren't you convinced that weakness is a man's condition? How can you raise yourself if you haven't fallen first?”

“It was lonely, not even knowing yourself.”

“In the end, the only one you can ever really please is yourself. How others feel is up to them.”