“A world that was crowded with people could still be a very lonely place.”

“If every babe who cried were still alive, well, then, the world would be a very crowded place, indeed.”

“Monasticism is really based on the idea that if you leave people, you leave the spirit of the world. But you do not. You can leave the world in a physical sense, you can leave the crowd and the people; but there in your lonely cell the spirit of the world may still be with you.”

“Loneliness is a state of feeling that can be changed.People may still feel lonely even among the crowd.”

“The most important thing in the world is people. Without people, you'd be naked, starving and lonely. There'd be no taxes, but still...”

“There is nothing more exasperating than reading in contemporary guidebooks disparagements of places that are deemed to be "seedy." Do the writers not notice that such places are invariably crowded with people? When a neighborhood is described as "seedy" by some Lonely Planet prude, I immediately head there.”