Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly.

Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved.

I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art.

I'd like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time, instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them.

You can be shaped, or you can be broken. There is not much in between. Try to learn. Be coachable. Try to learn from everybody, especially those who fail. This is hard. ... How promising you are as a Student of the Game is a function of what you can pay attention to without running away.

He knew what the Beats know and what the great tennis player knows, son: learn to do nothing, with your whole head and body, and everything will be done by what's around you.

Whatever you get paid attention for is never what you think is most important about yourself.