Quotes About Isolation

I'm happy I can sit home in my office and make up stories about superheroes. And I only have to deal with a pretty limited amount of people to get those comics produced.

I am marooned on a Crag of Superiority in an ocean of soldiers.

I was thinking, too, of Superman and his fortress of solitude.

There's been a long lineage of a stranger in a strange land, whether it's 'E.T.,' 'Starman,' or other movies about trying to connect with humanity; it struck me that's what a Superman story really is.

Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.

The free-from aisle is the most depressing place in the supermarket.

I was a really bad single mum. I used to go to the supermarket just for somewhere to go.

I have few friends. I can count them on one hand. I go by myself to the cleaners and the supermarket and I live alone with my dogs.

I still get a few dirty looks over the racks in the supermarket, but nobody kicks me in the shins on Water Street. I've made sort of a point, apart from being a social dud, not to fraternize with the people I write about.

In the days of 'EastEnders,' I couldn't go into a pub or supermarket, as people would recognise me and follow me home.

During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.

I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone.

Since I am an outsider, I never knew how it feels to have a superstar in one's family.

There are a lot of elderly people in Flint who are homebound and can't get the supplies they need.

Before 'MOOO!' there were times when I was definitely at a low. I wasn't getting that much support from people around me.

During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.

When I was growing up, nobody was really supporting me, especially in L.A.

At age 12, I was put on tranquilizers when I should have gotten help. There was nothing major and awful, I just didn't feel my family was supportive and emotionally generous.

It was said of me recently that I suffered from an Obsessional Privacy. I can only suppose it must be true.

Sometimes I felt glad not to be too close to people. I might have been happier, I suppose. On the other hand, I never had much luck with people over the years.

Alienation, I suppose, can't be hackneyed because it will always exist.

I suppose we do live a pretty isolated life.

I suppose the place where I live is fairly remote, it would seem remote to some people.

I am interested in outsiders. I suppose I have always felt like one myself.