The solution to alone-ness is not more solitude, but companionship and community.

Solitude is not the same as loneliness. Solitude is a solitary boat floating in a sea of possible companions.

Solitude sometimes is best society.

Solitude is the safeguard of mediocrity. . . to genius the stern friend.

I enjoy my own company far too much to just hang out with anybody

His act was rather that of a harmless lunatic than an enemy. We were not so new to the country as not to know that the solitary life of many a plainsman had a tendency to develop eccentricities of conduct and character not always easily distinguishable from mental aberration. A man is like a tree: in a forest of his fellows he will grow as straight as his generic and individual nature permits; alone, in the open, he yields to the deforming stresses and tortions that environ him.