“Loneliness is remedied at times with the company of a friend and at other times with the company of oneself.”

“Let your feelings flow freely, accept each one of them, know that they are your feelings and no one is to blame for them. Live from your essence and watch your feelings flow; only when you accept them can you understand the story of your life.”

“The night was a time for bestial affinities, for drawing closer to oneself.”

“Fear makes idiots out of us all, at some time or other.”

“I was small enough to mind that Rudy had a good friend other than me.”

“The conflict each day is whether to immerse in books or writing. I can't do one without the other, but I can't do both at the same time. It is the writer's paradox.”

“books are the arms which murder isolation, drive away loneliness, fulfill a friend's company.”