America Quote by Steven Millhauser

“In compulsively keeping myself out of view, I was participating, without realizing it, in a rich New York tradition. Loners and shut-ins and hermits…

— Jon-Jon Goulian

Same old boring boring story America can’t stop telling itself. What is this sicko fascination? Every book and movie practically has to have a…

— Francesca Lia Block

“hardest thing to face in life is isolation in your own city”

— Sunil Sharma

“...like isolated apartment dwellers running the TV for company, we sense a deeper isolation beneath the babble of voices, the poverty of our communications.”

— Mark Slouka

Our cities with their swollen populations and cliff dwelling high-rise buildings are breeding places for loneliness. Neighborhoods crumble under the housing development bulldozers and…

— Allan Fromme

My upbringing has given me sympathy for the idea of isolation and what it is to be a new person in the room, where…

— Julianne Moore

“lonely and isolated people who feel their solitude more intensely within the busy life of the streets. They are what George Gissing called the…

— Peter Ackroyd

“There was a whole subculture of mentalists who spent their nights breaking into boarded-up tube stations, forgotten sewers, abandoned buildings, and other places you…

— Cory Doctorow

I see people growing more and more isolated in their lives. It's not like it's a new thing, but it's more preoccupying now as…

— Patrice Leconte

“The course of urban development in America is pushing the individual toward that line seperating proud independence from pitiable isolation.”

— Ray Oldenburg

“This much freedom leaves you on your own. More Americans than ever before live alone, but even a family can exist in isolation, just…

— George Packer

“Not one was willing to break out of that velvet cage of comfort and convenience to begin a radical lifestyle lived from an inner…

— K.P. Yohannan