There is a charm, even for homely things, in perfect maintenance.
Only little boys and old men sneer at love.
We were not as rich as the Rockefellers or Mellons, but we were rich enough to know how rich they were.
A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.
Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.
Buechner is a worthy member of the great prose stylists: Pascal, Newman, and Merton, who have harnessed their art to a passionate religious faith.