Alice Koller (September 13, 1925 – July 21, 2020) was an American writer and academic. (wikipedia)
It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth.
Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.