Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

You need to establish a degree of privacy and solitude in order to write

my dearest agony let us be together, i am not seasoned for this solitude.

A man thinking or working will always be alone, let him be where he will.

So I lived alone. The first thing I did was take off my pants. Naturally.

I shivered in thosesolitudeswhen I heardthe voiceofthe saltin the desert.

Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one's self?

I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting.

The measure of your solitude is the measure of your capacity for communion.

To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

At first the solitudecharmed me like a prelude,but so much music wounded me.

When your mind is quiet, when your mind is in silence, then the new arrives.

It's not your enemies who condemn you to solitude, it's your friends

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.

Life has ill-prepared me for finding any enjoyment in a press of merrymakers.