I love solitude, but I prize it most when plenty of company is available.

I mean you have been disappointed in love, but don't you know how many things there are to be disappointed in besides love? You are lucky to be still disappointed in love. Later it may be even more terrible.

How should I know why! I didn't invent human beings, Iggy.

I love solitude, but I prize it most when plenty of company is available.

A writer is in the broadest sense a spokesman of his community. Through him that community comes to know its heart. Without such knowledge, how long can it survive?

But she's a nut, and nuts win.

But there are things you can't consult anybody about.