Quotes About Isolation

Starships are all work and no fun.

L.A. is fun, but it feels like one of those towns in the north of Scotland where there's an oil rig just off the coast and whether or not you work for the oil rig, everyone is connected to it.

Walls work both ways. They keep people out...but they keep people in, too.

I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.

I really do work in solitude.

When I'm working, I'm going to avoid all media. No newspapers, no magazines, no movies, no radio, no TV. I'm just going to do creative work.

The act of creation, as you very well know, is a lonely and private matter and has nothing to do with the public area... the performance of the work one creates.

I didn't like not having work and not having people return my calls.

Fame invades your private life. It takes away from the time that you spend with friends, and the time that you can work. It tends to isolate you from the real world.

I only work at night, generally. Usually when I work [during the day] I'll black out the windows or something.

For horror to work, you have to be afraid. You have to keep the monster in a black and white light.

I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.

Writing is such a singular and lonely occupation. And it's interesting; all of the work that you create is so singular.

With my hours, I don't hang out with anybody. I work and come home to my Upper West Side apartment.

Writing is a very lonely occupation. To write you need to concentrate, to concentrate you need to lock yourself away. No distractions; you want your stream of thought uninterrupted.

People are so busy anyway they don't see you or recognise you in the street.

I was always the one left behind. Out in the streets, when they saw me they'd say, That's just one of the Bee Gees.

Most people, if you live in a big city, you see some form of schizophrenia every day, and it's always in the form of someone homeless. 'Look at that guy - he's crazy. He looks dangerous.' Well, he's on the streets because of mental illness. He probably had a job and a home.

In other countries, it's a common thing to have outcast children running around the streets in packs, and I don't think we're so far away from it here.

You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.

Isolated and unincorporated, North Gulfport lacked a basic infrastructure: flooding and contaminated drinking water were frequent problems. Although finally incorporated in 1994 - not long after the arrival of the first casino - many of North Gulfport's streets still lack curbs, sidewalks, and gutters.

When you go to the big city - you're in New York, Boston, you're in L.A. - you walk in the streets, and nobody says anything to you. It becomes so impersonal because there's so many people.

Shutting out the depression strengthens it. While you hide from it, it grows.

For about three or four years, I was in a lot more physical pain and stress than anybody knew. When I would meet people, I was kind of standoffish. That was because I was in a bit of a funk.