"You must write as if you were already dead and not worry about the consequences; otherwise you compromise that one bit of individual insight that moved you closer to the truth."
--Nadine Gardimer

"My life is spent in a perpetual alternation between two rhythms, the rhythm of attracting people for fear I may be lonely and the rhythm of trying to get rid of them because I know I'm bored."
--C.E.M. Joad

"...most bad habits are tools to help us through life."
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"To talk too much about oneself may also be a means of concealment."
--Friedrich Nietzsche.

"...and a loneliness so vast it was like and open wound."
--Ray Bradbury, Death is a Lonely Business.