From the time I was a little kid, I was always shy. Performing was when I was outgoing. So I guess I am a loner. I get claustrophobia if a lot of people are around.
When I arrived, at first a lot of people were like, 'This kid is different.'
The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing.
I am marooned on a Crag of Superiority in an ocean of soldiers.
I've never had a teammate competing with me my whole life.
I'm a very private, very reclusive kind of guy.
We don't have a lot of neighbors so we can blast the stereo.
Personally, I was never the cool kid. I was always sort of a bookworm.
The people who have the strongest opinion about everything have never left their city, their town, haven't left their 'hood, haven't left their area, their corner of the world. They don't read. They've never left their house.
Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.
I am essentially a loner.
I stand at a distance, like a person who comes from another world.
This is one of my definitions of mountaineering: to go where others do not.
I've always been on the outside looking in. I was never popular in school, despite my success in athletics. I would win track and field competitions, but I wouldn't go to parties. I'd be alone.
I am a very reclusive, private person.
It is never very crowded at the front.
The world is quiet here.
Being a black sheep is a way I would describe myself.
It's not easy to be the weird kid or the rebel.
I was... the loser of my class. I had absolutely no friends.
I am not afraid of being a pariah.
I don't know anyone who was never a geek, really, when they look at their own lives. I think that from the outside looking in, you think that you weren't necessarily a tragic geek, but yes, you did lean in that direction.
I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.
And when we are with Alex, I might as well not be there. They speak in a language of whispers and giggles and secrets; their words are like a fairy-tale tangle of thorns, which place a wall between us.
I wasn't a social butterfly at all.
