Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.

The heart of a man is like deep water.

It'd be preposterous for me to propose a universal cure to loneliness but I will say that people who do the things they find interesting, either creatively or vocationally, tend to become unlonely very quickly.

Once he entered my life, I promptly forgot all my years of putting on a brave face while browsing at bookstores until closing time, and of having one, two, three beers while watching crime shows and CNN. I completely forgot the hateful sensation of loneliness, like thirst and hunger together pressing on my stomach.

The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.