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Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.

Sometimes I get lonely, but it's nice to be alone.

I never felt isolated; I just liked being alone. I think that some people are good at being alone, and some people aren't, and as a child, I really liked it.

I make a genuine distinction between loneliness and aloneness. I know what each is like. There are times I'm lonely. But there are also many times when I need to be alone, when I don't want the feeling of someone else in the house other than the cats.

I've always been a loner, and I've spent most of my life as a single person.

It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.

I'm very social, and in a place like New York, even if you're alone on the subway, you never feel lonely.

I am far more of a loner than people would imagine. But I am the most gregarious and socially interactive loner you ever met. The thing is, I am fascinated by people's stories and I'm very talkative and can't ever say no to anything or anyone, so I tend to over-socialize, to give away too much of my time to the many people I adore.

I say I like to be alone, yet I am always surrounded by people.