As a child I wanted only two things - to be left alone to read my library books and to get away from my provincial hometown and go to London to be a writer. And I always knew that when I got there I wanted to make loads of money.

The thing I like about baseball is that it's one-on-one. You stand up there alone and if you make a mistake it's your mistake. If you hit a home run it's your home run.

Most of these people who are celebrities now don't do anything to deserve it so by that fact alone I don't want to be one.

As a young man even if I was going to see a play or a film by myself I didn't feel like I was alone. There was something that was unfolding up there that brought me into it. And I recognised that. For those two hours it made me feel like I belonged to something really good.

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

I don't think nationalism is alone holding the field it's in contention with a lot of different things.

The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision and every action responsibility.

The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing and often paradoxically it is literature that suffers for it.

Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas this mania for control makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.

I don't think I ever got the hang of the writers' room. I love collaborating with people but I really do my best work alone and I think I would want to - if I did something again I think I'd want to take total ownership the way Aaron Sorkin or David Kelley does.

In Turkey you're not allowed to be left alone in the hospital. The nurse teaches the family how to do things and somebody is always there with the patient.

It's important for moms to have alone time. However that's the first thing that goes on a busy day. Fortunately for me because of my job I have to find the time to do it. At least that's the way my mind sees it.

I got a lot of problems but I'm really good at intuiting what I need to do to be happy with whatever I create. I know when to stop myself I know when to start I know when to leave something alone. I guess I just kind of indulge that completely and so I just take my time.

I absolutely relate to being alone in squalor trying to come up with something adequate. I relate to that and I've been known to crawl out of bed and drink out of a 2-liter bottle of Diet Coke.

If the First Amendment means anything it means that a state has no business telling a man sitting alone in his house what books he may read or what films he may watch.

I once had a boyfriend who couldn't write unless he was wearing a necktie and a dress shirt which I thought was really weird because this was a long time ago and no one I knew ever wore dress shirts let alone neckties it was like he was a grown-up reenacter or something.

And what's more I've got no need for anyone to tell me how to do it. I am not interested. You act how you want to and leave me alone to do my own thing.

I love my friends and family but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone in silence eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be.

I've always had a huge fear of dying or becoming ill. The thing I'm most afraid of though is being alone which I think a lot of performers fear. It's why we seek the limelight - so we're not alone were adored. We're loved so people want to be around us. The fear of being alone drives my life.

Belief is nothing but a more vivid lively forcible firm steady conception of an object than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.

It is clear that not in one thing alone but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.

Our world is so glutted with useless information images useless images sounds all this sort of thing. It's a cacophony it's like a madness I think that's been happening in the past twenty-five years. And I think anything that can help a person sit in a room alone and not worry about it is good.

Alone I'm nothing.

I have an internal protectiveness where it's like if it comes to just me as frightened as I am of losing someone I love or things going sour or simply being alone there is a dark place in my brain where I'm like It could happen and I'm okay I'm prepared.