"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."

~ Alice Koller, author of The Stations of Solitude and An Unknown Woman.

"When something is intolerable is in my life, I head for the water.  It leavens me in some way.  Some middle-most part of me is soothed and silenced by it." ~ Alice Koller