Loneliness is one of the most crushing human emotions. The feelings of abandonment and isolation create an overwhelming sense of helplessness and despair. People in the throes of a heightened state of loneliness often fall prey to temptations or behaviors that are extremely atypical.
- author Charles Stanley, A Touch of His Presence

Restless Mailer Living on the edge

He's 80, and not slowing down. The author of 31 books (beginning with The Naked and the Dead (1948) and including, most recently, The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing).
· Living on the edge [CronWatch]
· Executioner's Song [Tallahassee]
· Don Quixote at Eighty [NYBooks]
· The novel is like the Great Bitch in one's life [Rockymountainnews]