Lover Of Solitude Narratives Gifts

"Perhaps a glass of Chardonnay at the Bar a Vins?" Jacob said, invitingly. But when he turned, there was no one.

"I gotta be me!"

Sure, he likes it here - he's a cartoonist.

Crowded Ice Fishing

"Look, if I had all the answers, would I be living alone on the top of a mountain?"

'It's a sign of the times, a high rise block of caves reserved for hermits.'

'What I've learnt sitting on this mountain, alone for ten years, is how boring sitting alone on a mountain for ten years is!'

'Just when you thought you had the beach to yourself.'

'Do you ever just feel like getting away from it all?'

"Well, it gets lonely up here!"

"I'm upstairs right now. On weekends and holidays, I go downstairs."

"It's lonely here at the top. Thank goodness I've never been a people person."

Man and bird

Martin hated dining alone – but loved the savings.

"Beware of dog"

Welcome to the Hothouse Writer's Colony.

Big Birthday Boy Breakfast.

"No thanks, I need time away from madness."

Excess Baggage: Some people take getting away from it all very seriously.

'What luck!'

Man on park bench: I was always taught to respect my elders, but it keeps getting harder to find one.

Poet beside a (literally) babbling brook.

'That's the point - We're SUPPOSED to be out of the loop!'

Always! Just as I sit down to eat!

"I moved out here for peace and quiet, but now I keep talking to myself."

"At least you have a tree."

"Not now, Elaine—I'm on my man-cloud."

'Will you be dining alone tonight, Sir?'

'It was designed for people who don't want any visitors.'

Where's Mom?

"You can just leave it on that crag, thanks."

"3....2....1.....Coming, ready or not....."

"And he hits it, and the other guy hits it back, and the first guy hits it, and the second guy hits it back and-"

'No matter where you go, people somehow find you.'

"We can't blame the travel agent, you asked for somewhere quiet and away fro it all."