I learned why 'out riding alone' is an oxymoron: An equestrian is never alone, is always sensing the other being, the mysterious but also understandable living being that is the horse.

When I walked to school in the mornings I would start out alone but would pick up four other boys along the way. We would set out together after school across the village green.

You can't get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you've got fat on your body, the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure, what makes it bigger? It's the fat!

I'm not into watching stuff I did last week, let alone three or four years ago.

The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods, has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages.

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone it has to be itself.

Postmodernism surely requires an even greater grasp of symbolism, as it's increasingly an art of gesture alone.

I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.

I'm a workaholic. Before long I'm traveling on my nervous energy alone. This is incredibly exhausting.