Damon Galgut Quotes

I don't care about a social life.

I'm not very interested in people. I recognize it in myself - there is a basic indifference toward people.

On the broad spectrum of solitude, I lean toward the extreme end: I work alone, as well as live alone, so I can pass an entire day without uttering so much as a hello to another human being. Sometimes a day's conversation consists of only five words, uttered at the local Starbucks: 'Large coffee with milk, please.'

More and more, I find myself turning away from everything relating to contemporary society. I don't know how healthy it is, but I am creating a very private bubble that I live in.

I think I am very anti-social.

I don't socialise. My social life is minus zero.

I've never been super close to family. I've never relied on anyone.

Radical individualism can be very sad.

I'm not much of a golfer, I don't have any friends and all I like to do is go home and be alone, and not worry about ways not to lose.

I didn't have any friends at school, didn't want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me.

They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the total self-sufficiency of lives which, needing nothing, were never dissapointed.

I don't want to be looked at. I really want to be a home body.

I am more exempt and more distant than any man in the world.

Solitude is un-American.

I wanted to be as far away from everybody as I could be. I found it difficult to be close to anybody, not just the guys in the band.

I think I'm a very solitary person. To actually not be anonymous is a bit claustrophobic for me.

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

You can become quite blase, and also, I have no sense of home; I don't have roots. I've never had that feeling that someone else is going to take care of me, ever. I don't trust people.

I have always written about characters who fall somewhere in the spectrum between solitary and totally alienated.

In talking, shyness and timidity distort the very meaning of my words. I don't pretend to know anybody well. People are like shadows to me and I am like a shadow.

I can go days without meaningful human interaction.

I'm so accustomed to being alone.

I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

I know a lot of people who transitioned and dropped out of society for two years. They don't talk to anybody. They become hermits. They try to do everything alone.

I don't go on lunch dates with friends. I hear about people having dinner parties, but I never do that. I'm not really human.