My sense of loneliness was not PARTICULARLY GREAT until I reached sixty. From that TIME on, I WOULD have given an ex-king's ransom if I had been ABLE, in my youth to seduce a lady into thinking of me as a handyman and provider around the house.

Easter tells us of something children can't understand, because it addresses things they don't yet have to know: the weariness of life, the PAIN, the profound LONELINESS and hovering FEAR of meaninglessness.

I've never minded SOLITUDE. For a writer, it's a NATURAL CONDITION. But caring for a dementia sufferer leads to a PECULIAR kind of LONELINESS.

'Intimate Apparel' is a LYRICAL meditation on one WOMAN's LONELINESS and desire. 'Fabulation' is a very fast-paced play of the MTV generation.

With Charlie Brown, it was about LONELINESS and isolation. I ALWAYS THOUGHT that the thing about Charlie Brown and those characters was the absence of the PARENTS. HALF the strip was about who wasn't there. The parents were never in the picture.

Hostility comes from LONELINESS, from not SEEING yourself LIKE a drop falling into the OCEAN of humanity like EVERYONE else.

One of the things reading does, it MAKES your LONELINESS manageable if you are an essentially lonely PERSON.

As FAR as LONELINESS, I FEEL LOS Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere - it is a lonely place. It's an isolated city in that respect because you're driving to places alone listening to the radio.

The only place I've felt was really my home is my cabin up NORTH. There's something in the WATER there that connects me to that place. There's also this sense of isolation and loneliness about it that I've NEVER been ABLE to shake.

Many of my characters STRUGGLE with loneliness, that is FAIR to SAY.

The directing of a PICTURE involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling PART in PUTTING together a small world. A picture is made. You PUT a frame around it and move on. And one day you DIE. That is all there is to it.