If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But when you get in with others who share the loneliness of the whole enterprise, you're not lonely anymore.
“Like everyone else, I want to go on dancing forever, but I know the day is going to come when I will have to be doing something else.”
“Most victims of my autobiographical verse are either far too polite, remarkably understanding unaware that I have written poems about them.”