It is not simply that we share with each other a common humanity, but that individually we have no humanity without each other.

It is not simply that we share with each other a common humanity, but that individually we have no humanity without each other.

Gardening gave me a way to work with silence; not "in silence" but "with silence" - it was a silent creativity.

Being alone in our present society raises an important question about identity and well-being.

We think we are unique, special and deserving of happiness, but we are terrified of being alone.

If you tell people enough times that they are unhappy, incomplete, possibly insane and definitely selfish there is bound to come a grey morning when they wake up with the beginning of a nasty cold and wonder if they are lonely rather than simply “alone.”

Ian Watson did an almost full novel length treatment which I've never seen and when he finished it Stanley said to him. I need somebody to smear this with vaginal jelly, and I have to say when I first heard this that I was rather shocked, because he was quite gentlemanly.