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

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

I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.

Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place.

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.

I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference.