We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say - and to feel - 'Yes, that's the way it is, or at least that's the way I feel it. You're not as alone as you thought.'

The discipline of the written word punishes both stupidity and dishonesty.

What good men most biologists are, the tenors of the scientific world-temperamental, moody, lecherous, loud-laughing, and healthy. Your true biologist will sin…

One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter: 'Beware. You will never get out of this world alive.'

Nobody knows about my man. They think he's lost on some horizon. And suddenly I find myself Listening to a man I've never known before, Telling me about the se…

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.