Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation of writing.
There's a real purity in New Zealand that doesn't exist in the states. It's actually not an easy thing to find in our world anymore. It's a unique place because it is so far away from the rest of the world. There is a sense of isolation and also being protected.
I rent houses in LA when I'm filming. I find the isolation there terrifying. There's nowhere to go, there's nowhere to be with people. I'm not a beach bunny.
In this cry of pain the inner consciousness of the people seems to lay itself bare for an instant, and to reveal the mood of beings who feel their isolation in the face of a universe that wars on them with winds and seas.
Too much of what is called "education" is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.
At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
One of the biggest changes that ever occurred in my life was going from the isolation of working part-time as a house painter in Henderson County, to Cornell, where everybody was a literary person.
One could not have isolated this retrovirus without knowledge of other retroviruses, that's obvious. But I believe we have answered the criteria of isolation.
When I married Paul, we lived in St John's Wood in London. We had nice next-door neighbours, but you don't know anyone else. Everyone lives in isolation.
It's funny, because my last record was a lot about isolation and people living in separate worlds that other people can't even understand, which drug addiction is the perfect negative example of.
The only place I've felt was really my home is my cabin up north. There's something in the water there that connects me to that place. There's also this sense of isolation and loneliness about it that I've never been able to shake.
So if North Korea continues present isolation, then with such economic difficulties the North Korean government must meet a very serious situation in the future.
I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity.
The home stands in contrast to all other capitalist institutions as the last stronghold of pre-capitalist isolation.
National isolation breeds national neurosis.