People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone.

Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.

One travels more usefully when alone because he reflects more.

The best remedy for those who are afraid lonely or unhappy is to go outside somewhere where they can be quiet alone with the heavens nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable I tolerate them if I find them too obnoxious I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.

I'm fascinated with myself and love hearing the sound of my own voice. I'd like to hear what I have to say. A lot of people don't like being alone because they truly don't like themselves but I love me.

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone because I am the person I know best.

I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.

In my older age I've learned to take things slower because I used to be that total-fall-in-love-after-a-day guy.

The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age and an age is heroic because of what it is not because of what it does.