Miguel Syjuco Quotes

I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.

You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.

Let me alone, and go in search of someone else.

The writer works in a lonely way.

I just want to be left alone.

There are worse places to be than on your own.

My solo travels in Paris have brought many perfect hours of being alone but not a moment of loneliness. People who depend on other people are often in hiding from themselves. Two and a quarter million people live in the City of Light: you will see many of them and you will pass them in the street, but when you see Notre Dame after dark and walk home and perhaps stop to have a drink in the Marais, you can feel that the only thing that is missing from your experience is the common dependence on someone to distract your attention. You are living without it: you are on vacation.

What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone.

Solitude is independence.

I think to be writer you have to enjoy being alone. I was a loner as a teenager and was always drawn to characters in books and films who were at the fringes.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

Remember we're all in this alone.

Artists walk alone.

I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person, because it was more romantic. You know, I was raised on the idea of the ramblin' man and the loner.

After all my various relationships I find myself now home alone.

I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference.

I grew up in the middle of everything. I walked the streets alone, I rode the trains alone, I came home at three in the morning alone; that was what I did.

I have no family to take care of.

Very much alone in my work, I am almost jealous of it.

You know, one of my fears about living alone so long is that you get used to doing everything your own way.

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

I just want to be on my own branch twittering.

I regretted the solitary nature of the writer's life - other people, normal working people, spent their days with co-workers, rode the subway home with a crowd, walked through thronged streets. I worked at home, all by myself.

I love New York! You walk around, nobody notices you, you don't notice anybody, you're in your own little world.