“Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the ...” — Joseph Conrad Quote

“Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.”

“A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.”

“Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.”

“I think more and more people want to live alone. You can be a couple without being in each other's pockets. I don't see why you have to share the same bathroom.”

“In real life, I am a very sensitive person as l lived alone in Chennai for 15 years without my family. I always remember that phase of my life.”

“I really feel like sometimes I'll write these songs, and I'll just think, 'You know that couldn't have come from me alone.' I believe that God inspires us. I believe that He gives us gifts and talents, and it's up to us to develop them and choose what we do with them.”