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What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.

I mean one of the things about being alone is that you've no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are like all-round mirrors, because let's face it, we don't often see ourselves all round in a mirror anyway, do we.

When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.

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

Our uniqueness makes us special, makes perception valuable - but it can also make us lonely. This loneliness is different from being 'alone': You can be lonely even surrounded by people. The feeling I'm talking about stems from the sense that we can never fully share the truth of who we are. I experienced this acutely at an early age.

If loneliness is part of our essence, that is, our essential nature, that is only because of the way, in practical terms, we actually exist; that is, the way we move and work and live in the world.

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.

Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.

To reflect is to disturb one's thoughts.

With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.