“It was lonely, not even knowing yourself.”

“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.”

“We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we've never even met?”

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

“Even if you don't believe in yourself now, know that I believe in you.”

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

“The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true.”

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

“Surprising yourself is a big thing for me—to go somewhere that I don’t even know I’m going.”

“If you let the world in, you open yourself up to the world. Even if the world doesn't know that you're there.”