“I have no companions here.”

“It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery.”

“I have experienced as violence the emergence of the culture of compulsory industrialised joy, which is the companion of consumerism.”

“I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”

“I have had playmates, I have had companions,
In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days—
All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.”

“Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.”

“It is sweet to think I was a companion in an expedition that never ends”

“I would not wish any companion in the world but you.”

“I am simply looking for a companion with whom to spend my days, a companion who will cherish as much as I the stupidity of living in the moment, and spend every dull, amazing second with me.”

“I have a need to create works that are not just shocking, or say: striking, smashing – but also such works that can become companions of my various life events, and become companions of other people in their situations. These are the works that I create from the deep need to communicate with my sense and my ideal of beauty.”