“Very social people tend to be lonely.”
“Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly.”
“A world that was crowded with people could still be a very lonely place.”
“It is in the character of very few people to honour a prosperous friend without envy, and these very few people tend to become best friends.”
“Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents.”
“No other group in America has so had their identity socialized out of existence as have black women... When black people are talked about the focus tends to be on black men; and when women are talked about the focus tends to be on white women.”