“Reality was utterly coolheaded and utterly lonely.”
“He stretched out on the bed and was suddenly struck by how utterly lonely he was.”
“…a lie, once uttered, changes reality just as surely as if it were a great truth.”
“He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. But so long as he uttered it, in some obscure way the continuity was not broken. It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.”
“Truly songs and tales fall utterly short of the reality, O Smaug the Chiefest and greatest of Calamities.”
“It is said that life is too short, and that’s quite true, unless you are lonely. Loneliness can bring time to its knees; an absolute and utter standstill.”