Harry Reid Quotes

So I came from an environment where I was starved for information, starved for connection.

You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that.

I have days where the only words I say are to the person making my sandwich at the grocery store.

I have to get out once a week and speak with people or I start thinking I'm the emperor of Abyssinia.

I can go days without meaningful human interaction.

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.

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

When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.

I wanted to communicate and connect. I simply didn't seem able to do it.

Think about back in the day when we had Archie Bunker, 'The Jeffersons.' We had stuff to sit down and share and laugh at. The Internet has made it so we don't have to sit together anymore. It's so self-absorbed. No one has to talk to each other anymore, and people don't realize that that is killing us.

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.

In an odd sort of way, the computer and the Internet is the hermit's ideal form of communication. You don't have to see anyone. To send an email, you don't have to talk to anyone. You can just send it, and they'll read it on their own. The Internet has been really good for hermits.

Isolation among older people is a massive problem, and my grandad used to come round for Sunday lunch every week for as long as I can remember.

It is difficult to live among people because silence is so difficult.

Thanks to the greatly improved possibility of communication, we overrate its importance. Even stronger, we underrate the importance of isolation.

The story of the Baudelaires takes place in a very real world, where some people are laughed at just because they have something wrong with them, and where children can find themselves all alone in the world, struggling to understand the mystery that surrounds them.

For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the dead man gives me no pleasure, at least he shows me no contempt; whereas the absent one, silently indeed, but very plainly, tells me that he does not think me worth his attention.

I need people to call me, I never remember to call anyone - otherwise I'll just sit in my house and listen to music all day.

Real loneliness consists not in being alone, but in being with the wrong person, in the suffocating darkness of a room in which no deep communication is possible.

We all suffer alone in the real world; true empathy's impossible.

Fame invades your private life. It takes away from the time that you spend with friends, and the time that you can work. It tends to isolate you from the real world.

The reason for my starting a diary is that I have no real friend.

loneliness has its own needs!

Strange that grief should now almost choke me, because another human being's eye has failed to greet mine.

Men don't live well by themselves. They don't even live like people. They live like bears with furniture.