“In the outside world, he told me, there was no real silence.”
“A hotel, he told me, was a big house where a lot of people lived and ate and slept, but no one knew each other. He said that described most families in the outside world.”
“The world in your mind is as real as the world outside of it.”
“In the outside world, my brother told me, people were as reckless as animals and fornicated with strangers on the street.”
“In the wicked outside world, my brother told me, there were sins the church didn't know enough to forbid. I couldn't wait.”
“ There is a circle of humanity, he told me, and I can feel its warmth. But I am forever outside. ”