It is right that you have to have a tolerance for solitude. But when that solitude bears fruit, you can abandon it. You can be in the company of others.

Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks.

I get very involved in the internal logic of sentences.

Most things don't stay the way they are for very long. I take nothing for granted and try to be ready for the change that's soon to come.

Even though I get a lot done with my solitude, and I make the best use of it possible, I always think solitude is an interlude in a period of time, which is populated by others.

In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget about stuff that I'm working on.

You're only good if you can do bad and decide not to.