There can be no reconciliation where there is no open warfare. There must be a battle, a brave boisterous battle, with pennants waving and cannon roaring, before there can be peaceful treaties and enthusiastic shaking of hands. – Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Probably nothing serious or worthwhile can be accomplished without ones willingness to be alone for sustained periods of time, which is not to say that one must live alone, obsessively. – Joyce Carol Oates
