Stephen Colbert Quotes

From an early age she had developed the art of being alone and generally preferred her own company to anyone else’s. She read books at enormous speed and judged them entirely on her ability to remove her from her material surroundings. In almost all the unhappiest days of her life she had been able to escape from her own inner world by living temporarily in someone else’s, and on the two or three occasions that she had been too upset to concentrate she had been desolate.

I lay on the bed and lost myself in stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyways.

My day is spent hiding from people.

Of course I loved books more than people.

With me, my main vision for life was to avoid as many people as possible. The less people I saw the better I felt.

I was an extremely reclusive and introverted boy.

I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.

I don't like to socialise much.

I am essentially a recluse who will have very little to do with people wherever he may be. I think that most people only make me nervous - that only by accident, and in extremely small quantities, would I ever be likely to come across people who wouldn't.

I don't interact with people much.

Books were safer than other people anyway.

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 loved being in my own head so much, it was getting harder and harder being with other people.

Books. I'd probably spend all my time alone and lost in books if I could. It's easier that way.

I didn't like being alone. Being alone was slightly better than having to deal with people, that's all. Or so I'd convinced myself.

You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

I'm pretty much an isolated person. I'd rather stay home and play video games.

I'm a reclusive weirdo.

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

I had become shy of life's bustle in my solitary retreat and was apprehensive at the thought of facing the world.

Touring is just not normal for me. My personality is to never ever talk to people if I can help it.

I'm antisocial - there's no question about it.

I don't care about a social life.

I've never been a social person.