Roger Rosenblatt Quotes

I'm a weirdo and an only child. That comes together to create one-woman shows.

I'm a reclusive weirdo.

I had friends, but I was always a bit weird.

I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.

You know, as an only child, you're kind of in a bubble, and there are all sorts of things about my childhood that I still can't really place.

I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard.

We are a very close family, and I love them very much, but I'm definitely the odd one out. I live a completely different kind of life style. I always was different. I felt like a fish out of water; I really never knew who I was.

For years, I've felt like the loneliest brother on the planet. I don't play basketball, I can't dance, and I'd rather listen to Harry Nilsson than hip hop.

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

I was a strange kid. I'm still strange. People didn't get me. And I didn't expect them to.

Solitude begets whimsies.

I think the biggest problem working with me would be that I'm an only child, and so I have an internal dialogue that goes on that I just assume you can hear.

Being an only child is a disease in itself.

I am of a sect by myself, as far as I know.

Individualism, one of the great achievements of Western civilization, is now accompanied more and more by such phenomena as fragmentation, solitude, egocentricity and the disintegration of solidarity

Our uniqueness makes us special, makes perception valuable - but it can also make us lonely. This loneliness is different from being 'alone': You can be lonely even surrounded by people. The feeling I'm talking about stems from the sense that we can never fully share the truth of who we are. I experienced this acutely at an early age.

When you feel that the way you interpret the world is fairly idiosyncratic, you can feel somewhat ostracized and lonely.

I've never been comfortable with sharing anything: I was a single child.

I have always been an oddball. I was a loner at school, and largely still am, preferring to shut myself away with my work and books than go to parties.

Radical individualism can be very sad.

And if you love only yourself, you will serve only yourself. And you will have only yourself.

Some people spend their lives interested only in themselves.

The vain being is the really solitary being.

Isolation breeds conceit.

It was a vicious cycle, though. The more gratification we found in our own geniuses, the more isolated we grew.