“Think of this - that the writer wrote alone, and the reader read alone, and they were alone with each other.”

“Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of that in each other, but I can truly say we never felt that. We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others. But we were never lonely and never afraid when we were together.”

“I read to be alone. I read so as not to be alone.”

“But they were not friends. They were here to keep each other from spinning off alone into the dark matter of the universe.”

“The leader must be alone while others are with each other.”

“A writer who writes, ''I am alone''... can be considered rather comical. It is comical for a man to recognize his solitude by addressing a reader and by using methods that prevent the individual from being alone. The word alone is just as general as the word bread. To pronounce it is to summon to oneself the presence of everything the word excludes.”