The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.

Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.

The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person. All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.

This fear is one of the horrors of an author's life. Where does work come from? What chance, what small episode will start the chain of creation? I once wrote a story about a writer who could not write anymore, and my friend Tennessee Williams said, 'How could you dare write that story, it's the most frightening work I have ever read.' I was pretty well sunk while I was writing it.

I´m a stranger in a strange land.

I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.

The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.