I lived a very isolated life. When you start at 20, you have a lot of nonsense to work out of your system. Edie Sedgwick
I was learning that if I lived slightly in the future-what will happen next-I didn't have to feel so much about what was going on in the present. Augusten Burroughs
The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy; they want to be right. Quentin Crisp
Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level. Quentin Crisp
Love at the lips was touch As sweet as I could bear And once that seemed too much I lived on air. Robert Frost
I lived like a man who wanted to die but who had no courage to do it himself. Anne Rice