Loneliness seems to have become the great American disease.

Loneliness has been described as a chronic disease with no redeeming features. But it is very important for the survival of our species. It contributes to our humanity.

I have come to realize more and more that the greatest disease and the greatest suffering is to be unwanted, unloved, uncared for, to be shunned by everybody, to be just nobody [to no one].

One of the glories of New York is its ethnic food, and only McDonald's and Burger King equalize us all.

His words and music weren't just joined; they were inseparably married.

All great and precious things are lonely.