Albert Brooks Quotes

Most of my peers in television seem to be from a different planet. I don't hang out with any of them.

Society's dark hull drifts further and further away. It is this place - the place of our separation, our distinction - that much of his poetry occupies.

I kind of live in this weird world where I am exposed to a lot of stuff, but then again I am not exposed to a lot of stuff.

Every year the progress of advanced capitalist society makes our population consist of more and more isolates. This is because of the infrastructure of the economy, especially electronic communications.

More and more, my life is going in a direction that is not universal; there's only a very small group of people who understand.

My world is kind of small.

As from a star I saw, coldly and soberly, the separateness of everything. I felt the wall of my skin; I am I. That stone is a stone. My beautiful fusion with the things of this world was over.

There are all these people here I don't know by sight or by name. And we pass alongside each other and don't have any connection. And they don't know me and I don't know them. And now I'm leaving town and there are all these people I will never know.

It's easy to love humanity when you're this far away from it.

The isolation, the separateness, is always a part of any utopia.

This is the real thing of disillusion that no one, not any one really is believing, seeing, understanding, thinking anything as you are thinking, believing, seeing, understanding such a thing.

There seemed a gulf impassable between them.

Fame separates you from life.

Man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.

Everyone is isolated from everyone else. The concept of society is like a cushion to protect us from the knowledge of that isolation. A fiction that serves as an anesthetic.

Those can most easily dispense with society who are the most calculated to adorn it; they only are dependent on it who possess no mental resources, for though they bring nothing to the general mart, like beggars, they are too poor to stay at home.

There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.

In my situation, frankly, I'm a bit institutionalised - this [the embassy] is the world .. it's visually the world [for me].

Nothing is more sterile or lamentable than the man content to live within himself.

The Morganville in her wanted to tell people to go home and be safe, but she knew that was verging on crazy. The world these laughing people lived in was a very different place. She was in a very different place.

Man can find no better retreat from the world than art, and man can find no stronger link with the world than art.

Chic is a convent for unloved women.

The home was a closed sphere touched only at its edge by the world's evolution.

The problem is that many MPs never see the London that exists beyond the wine bars and brothels of Westminster.

I'm telling you, the disconnect is big, and the gap of understanding between the people in Washington, in news media, the New York/Boston/Washington corridor and the rest of the country, that gap is widening.