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

I restore myself when I'm alone.

The best part about being alone is that you really don't have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.

In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone but sometimes it is a great relief.

As I get older I'm more and more comfortable being alone.

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.