Tom Cotton Quotes

I've never been a social person. When I grew up, the other girls would all be combing their hair and exchanging lipstick, and I just couldn't do that group thing.

I was not someone who participated in other people's castles.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can't be locked up with anyone for too long.

I am very slow to warm. I've always been sort of a loner. I didn't play team sports. I am better one-on-one than in big groups.

I've always just been more comfortable as an outsider.

I used to like going out so much, and now I can't get myself to leave home.

I always sleep on my own. I can't sleep with somebody else. Always separate bedrooms, bathrooms and closets. I'm very individual and I want my own space.

I'm trying every day, when I meet a new human being, to not have the first thought that comes into my mind be, 'Are they going to like me?' I'm allowed to say, 'I like this, and I don't like that.'

I try to avoid people as much as possible. They might change my life!

I'm a private person and hate making friends.

I have stopped going out places just to avoid uncomfortable conversations.

I don't like to go out a lot. It's trouble.

In all things I would have the island of a man inviolate. Let us sit apart as the gods, talking from peak to peak all round Olympus. No degree of affection need invade this religion.

Your life is an island separated from all other islands and continents. Regardless of how many boats you send to other shores or how many ships arrive upon your shores, you yourself are an island separated by its own pains, secluded in its happiness

People are always separable.

You had to live in your own bubble. You couldn't force your way into someone else's, because then it wouldn't be a bubble any more.

I was naturally a loner, content just to live with a woman, eat with her, sleep with her, walk down the street with her. I didn't want conversation, or to go anywhere except the racetrack or the boxing matches. I didn't understand t.v. I felt foolish paying money to go into a movie theatre and sit with other people to share their emotions. Parties sickened me. I hated the game-playing, the dirty play, the flirting, the amateur drunks, the bores.

So now, all alone or not, you gotta walk ahead. Thing to remember is if we're all alone, then we're all together in that too.

Me, myself and I. That's all I got in the end.

I had as lief have been myself alone.

For the more a man limits himself, the nearer he is on the other hand to what is limitless; it is precisely those who are apparently aloof from the world who build for themselves a remarkable and thoroughly individual world in miniature, using their own special equipment, termit-like.

No one can cross the boundary into another -- for the simple reason that no one can gain access to himself

All we have to see is that I don't belong to you, and you don't belong to me.

All men of honor are alone.

I play by my own rules so please think twice before you step into my life.