“I take much pleasure in being alonebut there is also a strange warm grace in not being alone.”

“there are worse thingsthan being alonebut it often takesdecades to realize thisand most often when you doit's too lateand there's nothing worsethan too late”

“I never felt right being alone; sometimes it felt good but it never felt right.”

“I wasn't a misanthrope and I wasn't a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a small space and smoke and drink. I had always been good company for myself.”

“the grace is being able to like rock music,symphony music, jazz …anything that contains the original energy ofjoy.”

“being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.”

“I didn't have any friends at school, didn't want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me.”