Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

I eat out alone a lot.

Some people can't stand being alone. I love solitude and silence. But when I come out of it, I'm a regular talking machine. It's all or nothing for me.

If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in poor company.

People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.

He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts.

I went to a restaurant and sat at the bar and ate by myself. I have my iPad, which is my favorite instrument of all time. I talked to a few people next to me. I'm just trying to be out. It's a little bit scary.

I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.

Webster and I are very aloof. The two of us go and sit there by ourselves. I sit by myself in the corner with my book and the newspaper. He kind of runs around a little bit, and then he goes and sits on top of the picnic table. He never plays with other little dogs.

I live alone, so I don't really talk to anyone once I'm home. I have some silent nights.

I live in New York, and when you're older and widowed, it's a perfect place because you just don't feel lonely there, and, luckily, I like my own company, too.

I'd always lived with people - my family, or had people living with me, because I'd never liked being on my own.

I don't know that I spent any more time alone than any other kid, but being by myself never bothered me.

People will occasionally ask me if I understand what it's like to be lonely. And the truth is I don't, because for me, solitariness is a blessing, a gift. Me, I get on fine with myself.

I could go days, weeks, without talking to another human being.

I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.

The saddest utensil I've come across is an 'anti-loneliness ramen bowl,' which holds your iPhone to keep you company as you slurp your solitary bowl of noodles. But the iPhone cannot return your gaze or reassure you that you didn't squeeze too much lime into the soup, though maybe a dinner-conversation app is only a matter of time.

I spent a lot of time alone; I left school to be tutored. So, most of my companions were animals. It's as simple as that. I knew more animals than I did people.

I keep to myself a lot, I guess.

I make a genuine distinction between loneliness and aloneness. I know what each is like. There are times I'm lonely. But there are also many times when I need to be alone, when I don't want the feeling of someone else in the house other than the cats.

For me, I value connection a lot, talking to people and connecting. Don't get me wrong: I enjoy having my own time, but I think it's really important to have that connection, so living on Mars would be a struggle for me.

A month alone would make me so happy. Not good for my dating prospects.

I'm basically as shy a person as I was when I once worked in an office in London in the late Sixties. I like my own company. I didn't need a lot of friends.

Playing on the Clippers, that was the first time I really felt like I was like on an island by myself.

Sometimes I go totally anti-social.

I don't go around making conversation, I just kind of stick to myself.