“The world will be such a lonely place whenever I decide to leave it.”

“To Homer, libraries were holy places like churches, and the priestly librarians a blessed race, a saving remnant in a world of sin. Whenever God grew impatient and decided to destroy the world he remembered the librarians and stayed his hand.”

“A world that was crowded with people could still be a very lonely place.”

“When I got older I decided I wanted to be a real writer. I tried to write about real things. I wanted to describe the world, because to live in an undescribed world was too lonely.”

“I thought the only lonely place was on the moon.”

“I leave before being left. I decide.”

“I have gone into the waste lonely places
Behind the eye.”

“I hear the little children of the wind
Crying solitary in lonely places.”

“The love that lonely people crave
Follows them into their grave
Oh…we should never leave them lonely.”

“A light is gone from yonder sky,
A star has left its sphere;
The beautiful--and do they die
In yon bright world as here?
Will that star leave a lonely place,
A darkness on the night?—
No; few will miss its lovely face,
And none think heaven less bright!”