We can never leave loneliness behind completely - it is part of what forms us.

I look back on some of my early reviews of others, and realize to my chagrin that I've been as guilty as anybody else on that front.

We can never leave loneliness behind completely - it is part of what forms us.

Of course, each of us has to write our own book, live our own life.

At some point just about all of us experience loneliness. In a sense, it is what it means to be a sentient animal, to have an experience of separation from others.

None of us is perfect, but the point of our writing is to try to become better, to learn something that we may not have already realized, about ourselves, about the world we inhabit.

One of the reasons I always come back to representations of loneliness in plays, films, and literature is that they give us specific examples of the powerful hold that it has on us, and yet, paradoxically, by representing what can't really be represented, so to speak, they give us ways of going forward even as we fall apart.