“Isn't it exhausting?""What?""Keeping people out.”

“Being with other people is hard for me, even when I love them. People have different ways of seeing and feeling, and things they like and things they don't, and trying to keep up with all of that- trying to keep another person happy all the time--can be exhausting.”

“A cat is a responsibility after all. And feeding and keeping and caring about a stupid fat cat isn't much, isn't much in the entirety of what counts for being a person and the huge range of what people do,but it is something. It is something and it's something that's warm and that I still have.”

“Walls work both ways.They keep people out...but they keep people in, too.”

“Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.”

“Life isn't about you or me. If me , you , him or her died life isn't going to die out or disappear it keeps on living. Always.”