"With age, life becomes complex and difficult, often fraught with risk on several levels, from the practical to the fiscal."
"Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better."
"It is instilled in thousands of American males from an early age that one of their requirements is to be able to both dish out and take a lot of pain. They are taught the rules of this road in gyms, rings, backyards and fields all over America."
"I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity."
"I need to do things on my own, need to be left alone."
"One of the odd enjoyments in life is to be alone in a room full of people. To have them there as unknowing human filler in your wide shot."
"Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own."
"I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone."
