“I want to be alone... with someone else who wants to be alone.”

“I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.”

“But if I didn’t want to be alone, then why didn’t I want to be with anyone else?”

“It's easier to be me than someone else. But just like most famous people, I just want to be left alone most of the time.”

“I am alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make each hour holy. I am lowly in this world, and yet not lowly enough for me to be just a thing to you, dark and shrewd. I want my will and I want to go with my will as it moves towards action. And I want, in those silent, somehow faltering times, to be with someone who knows, or else alone. I want to reflect everything about you, and I never want to be too blind or too ancient to keep your profound wavering image with me. I want to unfold. I don't want to be folded anywhere, because there, where I'm folded, I am a lie.”

“I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.”