“Loneliness is the unloneliest feeling in the world, as everyone has experienced it.”

“Into adulthood through which everyone is always in a different way. Do not feel left out because of it. So, do not worry about it. Since everyone has experienced the same thing.”

“One can experience loneliness in two ways: by feeling lonely in the world or by feeling the loneliness of the world.”

“Art is not a handicraft; it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.”

“And there is another feeling that is a great consolation in poverty. I believe everyone who has been hard up has experienced it. It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so often of going to the dogs — and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them, and you can stand it.”

“It's convenient how everyone who supports waterboarding and torture, or "enhanced interrogation techniques" as they like to call it, have never experienced it themselves. Yet everyone who has, myself included, are firmly against it.”