"My passionate sense of social justice
and social responsibility has always contrasted
oddly with my pronounced lack of need
for direct contact with other human beings
and human communities. I am truly a 'lone traveler'
and have never belonged to my country, my home,
my friends, or even my immediate family, with
my whole heart; in the face of all these ties,
I have never lost a sense of distance and
a need for solitude… "
- Albert Einstein