Solitude though it may be silent as light is like light the mightiest of agencies for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.
Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva - alone not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! - with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev.