“There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.”

“There can be no real attachment to the given creation, no genuine responsibility in the world, unless we recognize the breach which already separates us from it.”

“The only thing that separates any one of us from excellence is fear and the opposite of fear is faith. I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for, perfection is God’s business.”

“The only thing that separated the so-called real world from high school was a locker combination”

“After all everybody, that is, everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves in order to tell what is inside themselves. That is why writers have to have two countries, the one where they belong and the one in which they live really. The second one is romantic, is is separate from themselves, it is not real but it is really there.”

“The world in which we live is no more real than a moon beam reflected in water drawn from the palm of the hand...”