To be alone and wide eyed surrounded by the clarity and subtlety of nature, a quiet room, or in the midst of a dream is true pleasure and I would not trade it for all the cheese in Wisconsin.

If we are to be useful to each other in the way that God intends we must take the time to be alone with ourselves and with God. For if we cannot commit some time to spend in solitude, to reflect upon the true nature of our souls, or to talk with the deity that has shown us grace, what, then, is the point of it all?

After all this kind of fanfare, and even more, I came to a point where I needed solitude and to just stop the machine of 'thinking' and 'enjoying' what they call 'living,' I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds...

Kerouac