“The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which makes you lonely.” – Lorraine Hansberry

“She hopes for nothing except fine weather and a resolution. She wants to end properly, like a good sentence.” – The Autograph Man, Zadie Smith

“You need not leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. You need not even listen, simply wait, just learn to become quiet, and still, and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked. It has no choice; it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.” — Franz Kafka