“Lying gets all the recompenses, then, while despair and loneliness are the rewards of constancy and fidelity.”

“One must count ones riches by the means one has to satisfy his desires.”

“My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness.”

“...and my loneliness, always my loneliness - that airless bubble of despair that is slowing stifling me.”

“Wait, don't despair,Have faith and hopeful,Who wait and don't despair,The reward awaits.”

“Once [a cat] has given its love, what absolute confidence, what fidelity of affection! It will make itself the companion of your hours of work, of loneliness, or of sadness. It will lie the whole evening on your knee, purring and happy in your society, and leaving the company of creatures of its own society to be with you.”

“It didn't take a trauma to make you wear a mask. It didn't take your parents getting shot...or cosmic rays or a power ring...Just the perfect combination of loneliness and despair.”