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Though we live in the world, we must not be of the world.

I probably like being isolated more than many people do, but I'm lucky to have the friendship of many fine people, and they keep me from becoming very isolated. The world of my mind is certainly a populated and warm place, too. It's difficult for me to become too isolated with such resources.

We live in a global village. No country can live in isolation of others like Robinson Crusoe.

I'm afraid that the United States is more isolated today than at any other time in my memory.

I haven't isolated myself. I am not living on a yacht somewhere. I am not tucked away or behind a gate somewhere. I am not flying on a private plane. I am going to the airport, I am with people, some of the interactions are good, some of them are not so good, but it keeps me in touch with being, you know, part of society.

The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.

I have this pet thing about how global communications are moving so fast now, throwing information at you, making everything available to you, and yet I feel it's leaving us more and more isolated.

The idea of feeling isolated is scary to me - to walk through the world alone would be heartbreaking.