How important is the concept of friendship to quirky-alones?
Our friends are the people we talk to every day, the people who support us, who are there from the very beginning. They are more important to us than some obsessive focus on finding and marrying a partner. I think it would be wonderful to honor our friends more: We give so much to them and get so much from them. It would be great if we could have a national friendship day. Q: How do you know you are a quirkyalone? A: The quirkyalone character develops out of an incubation period, a time of being single when you reach certain insights. Those insights then coalesce into a set of ideas you adapt and carry with you throughout the rest of your life — whether you are married, single, divorced, or widowed. When you are single long enough to know singleness is a unique state of being and not just a holding pattern between relationships, you are on the brink of becoming a quirkyalone. Q: How much does a still-high divorce rate influence your concept? A: The attitude of my generation about marri
