“The most terrifying specter that haunts the modern psyche is not death or disease or nuclear annihilation. It is loneliness.”
“Perhaps it is this specter that most haunts working men and women: the planned obsolescence of people that is of a piece with the planned obsolescence of the things they make. Or sell.”
“I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.”
“Shift from modern nuclear family to the postmodern permeable family.”
“ If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure. ”
“My fear of loneliness is like a disease.”