I'm not on the outside looking in. I'm not on the inside looking out. I'm in the dead fucking center.

"The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast."

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

The writer’s duty is to speak for those who cannot.