It helps to be able to be alone. 'Cuz writing is done alone unless you collaborate but I don't do that. Ask my ex-wife.

I once had a boyfriend who couldn't write unless he was wearing a necktie and a dress shirt which I thought was really weird because this was a long time ago and no one I knew ever wore dress shirts let alone neckties it was like he was a grown-up reenacter or something.

Talent alone won't make you a success. Neither will being in the right place at the right time unless you are ready. The most important question is: 'Are your ready?'

Man does not live by soap alone and hygiene or even health is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or better still feel a healthy indifference to it.

A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone.

Unless we love and are loved each of us is alone each of us is deeply lonely.