Robert Orben Quotes

I've always felt like there was a lot of hype around me even when there wasn't. I felt like everyone was talking about me even when no one was talking about me.

Sometimes I think I'm the craziest person on the planet.

I never trusted anybody at all. I don't know why it was so hard, I just didn't.

As a kid, I felt really weird.

People come up to me all the time. If I'm with friends or in a crowd, I'm fine, but if I'm by myself, I get afraid because people are nuts.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

I never thought of myself as being handsome or good-looking or whatever. I always felt like an outsider.

We have no quarrel with America. We all know NATO is the strongest military machine in the world. We simply want them to stop being so busy with our country and worry about their own problems.

Census figures be damned: If you choose to be alone, you're destined to spend a certain amount of time wondering why.

I've always felt alienated. I realized that I've been terrified my entire life. So I can identify that fear which drives so many of the people that I write about.

For a while I couldn't leave the house by myself. Even if I was just grocery shopping alone, I'd get self-conscious.

Nobody understands me, I'm really sensitive.

So in some ways my life, my background has been isolating and I think I'm a bit more scared as a person. I don't walk alone or in the dark. If I go out the driver will wait for me to go into the house.

The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company.

The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.

National isolation breeds national neurosis.

I know I'm unpopular.

From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt very comfortable with thinking I was from another planet, because I felt disconnected - I was very tall and skinny, and I didn't look like anybody else, I didn't even look like any member of my family.

During the Cold War, the non-aligned movement tried to become a 'third force' in world politics, but failed because it was too large and unwieldy.

War is but an instrument of international policy.

The United States may have to abandon its policy of avoiding entangling alliances.

I'm nobody, who are you?

As a country that does not belong to any power bloc, India cannot afford to put itself in the position of needing multilateral support - a trap into which even developed countries, like Portugal and Spain, have fallen.

We want the U.S. to have constructive and stable relations with China. That makes it much easier for us. Then we don't have to choose sides.

I couldn't really trust anyone. Not completely.