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You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.

Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?

I am very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.

I have no time for those who say there is no way Scotland could go it alone. I know first-hand the contribution Scotland and Scots make to Britain's success - so for me there is no question about whether Scotland could be an independent nation.

Comics, for me, is being able to sing alone in the shower. I find it freeing. You just pick up a pen and get to it.

If I was writing songs just for me I do only play them in my living room, alone.

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family gets together alone.

And I find - I am 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That is the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone.

You have to have enough respect for other human beings to leave their lives alone. If you admire that life, build it for yourself. Do not just try to come in and take somebody else life.

Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.

Friends are very important to me, and I have always had many of them. There are probably many reasons why this is so, but two seem to me more valid than any of the others I am a naturally friendly person, and I hate to be alone.

The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?

It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.

Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.

The majority does not rule in America, but the minority shouldn't hijack it. And it is because we are afraid. They have isolated us and made us feel as though we are alone. We are not.

Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.

You can not walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid the state of being alone.

I have always had a huge fear of dying or becoming ill. The thing I am most afraid of, though, is being alone, which I think a lot of performers fear. It is why we seek the limelight - so we are not alone, were adored. We are loved, so people want to be around us. The fear of being alone drives my life.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.