Robert Lefkowitz Quotes

I was lonely as a kid. Since I had no siblings, I spent a lot of time by myself and a lot of time reading.

Music was like my first real toy. I was an only child for a while, and I was alone a lot of the time - and I liked it. I still like being alone.

My mother said I was a little odd as a kid. I was alone a lot, but I didn't feel alone.

Our parents had Ph.D.s, but we were dirty ragamuffin children. I spent a huge amount of time by myself. I daydreamed and learned how to be alone and not be lonely.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.

When I was growing up, the place I felt least alone was when I was reading.

Because as an only child, you have your own little world.

I was an only child until I was 14, and there were no other kids around the area really. So I spent a lot of time on my own in the fields or by the lake, with just my imagination for company. I suppose I never wanted to let that part of me go.

I had friends but I was spending a great deal of my time alone and for me that was vital because there's an awful lot you learn about yourself when you're alone.

A solitary child growing up in Africa, you're really quite dependent on books.

I was an only child with a lot of time to kill. I suspect a lot of writers are only children, or only children become writers because it's a way of being alone.

I remember being alone a lot as a child, and I still love to be alone.

Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.

I was an only child, so I was alone a lot.

I don't know myself, what to do, where to go... I lie in the crack of a book for my comfort... it's what the world offers... please leave me alone to dream as I fancy.

It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.

I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.

What good is sitting all alone in your room?

I was alone as a child. I lived in fairytales, adventures, Shakespeare. They are the friends, my books.

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.

For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone. Perhaps if I was depressed and isolated, just communicating with these authors through their sentences helped me.

I've spent my life alone in a room with a typewriter.