Joe Walsh Quotes

I have an extended family of close friends, guy and girls.

In our youths, many of us suspected that being tied down to a partner and family might constrain us. But after 40, even that landscape starts to shift. Many singletons turn inward and start longing for the things so many of us longed to be free of in our 20s.

My wife was the part of me that was missing. And I got that whole family that came along with her in the deal. It's an extended family, and they're very close, and it's a dynamic that's never been around me before.

I grew up as the only child, and we did not have a large family. So for me and my mother, our friends tend to become our family.

I went from my mother to my wife. And to this day, I can't bear to be alone.

Sometimes it was difficult to make friends and be social in school because I was always practicing while other kids were getting together and doing things. But it just made me closer to my family, and I realized that they would always be there no matter what.

If you can't be with yourself, you'll never learn to be with anyone else.

The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages.

I don't have that many family and friends.

Friends and relatives might be surprised that I think of myself as lonely. I'm married to a man I not only love but like, and we spend a lot of time together. If I feel like socializing, I can usually find someone to meet for coffee or a drink.

Your roots, your family, your friends all become so much more important to you as you get older, especially if you are a wandering minstrel like me.

I grew up in a joint family of 60 people with one kitchen. So I am a firm believer in the family concept.

The counter-argument would be, so what if my sexual relationships are superficial, one can still have satisfying and rewarding relationships with friends, or parents, or siblings, or whatever.

We actually have a small family. It's just my father and I and my grandmother, who lives in Tokyo. I cherish my friendships.

But you base everything on people you know.

I have a horror of boring someone or, worse still, of someone boring me. I said to my mother when I was seven, 'But, Mums, if it was only my husband and me in the house together, what would we talk about?' I've never wanted to answer my own question, and doubt I'll bother now.

It's hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don't always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.

I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.

I should say, one of the things about being a widow or a widower, you really, really need a sense of humor, because everything's going to fall apart.

I do come from a very close family. And I'm fascinated, in particular, with family relationships and the relationships that we all form with friends who feel as close, if not closer, than family.

Whenever we changed schools, we had to make a new set of friends. At the time, of course, I hated it. But looking back now, I'm really glad I did, because it forces independence on you.

It doesn't matter what kind of problems a family is having; it should always stay in the family.

Family does not necessarily mean blood relative.

Pay attention to your friends; pay attention to that cousin that jumps up on the picnic table at the family reunion and goes a little too 'nutty,' you know what I mean? Pay attention to that aunt that's down in the basement that never comes upstairs. We have to pay attention to our friends, pay attention to your family, and offer a hand.

The solution to alone-ness is not more solitude, but companionship and community.