It'd be preposterous for me to propose a universal cure to loneliness but I will say that people who do the things they find interesting, either creatively or vocationally, tend to become unlonely very quickly.

You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.

SAFETY NET-ISM: The belief that there will always be a financial and emotional safety net to buffer life's hurts. Usually parents.

I like the present. I'm always interested in new ideas, and what's happening. I'm not nostalgic.

With the first drink comes the truth, with the second drink comes wishful thinking, and with the third drink come the lies.

The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.

Back in the late 1970's, when I was fifteen years old, I spent every penny I then had in the bank to fly across the continent in a 747 jet to Brandon, Manitoba, deep in the Canadian prairies, to witness a total eclipse of the sun.