“...the holy men sat in an atmospherereeking of antiquity, so thick with thedust of ages that you can't see through it--nor can they.”

“You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle. ”

“We are always the same age inside. ”

“FLESHI drop my wedding ringin holy water.I hope it repels;the yearsof hate and hope,so I can finally relateto the son we made.”

“When I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, How can I combine career and family?”

“If you can't say anything nice about anyone else, come sit next to me.”

“An English wood is like a good many other things in life-- very promising at a distance, but a hollow mockery when you get within. You see daylight on both sides, and the sun freckles the very bracken. Our woods need the night to make them seem what they ought to be--what they once were, before our ancestors' descendants demanded so much more money, in these so much more various days. ("The Striding Place")”