"The existence of other people is essentially awkward."
- Lionel Shriver
"If you want to protect your pride, you don't need people to like you!"
- Wataru Watari
"The Princess of Parma was a Courvoisier in that she was incapable of innovation in social matters, but unlike the Courvoisiers in that the surprises the Duchesse de Guermantes perpetually held in stor..."
- Marcel Proust
"When you are alone in the wilderness, opinions or beliefs of any kind are dropped as the absurd accoutrements they are. But after being in the wilderness for a while, you may come around to feeling so..."
- Thomas Ligotti
"Boredom is certainly not an evil to be taken lightly: it will ultimately etch lines of true despair onto a face. It makes beings with as little love for each other as humans nonetheless seek each othe..."
- Arthur Schopenhauer