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

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

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

Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.

Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.

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

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.

I restore myself when I'm alone.