The secular Jew is a figment; when a Jew becomes a secular person he is no longer a Jew.
Cynthia OzickThe power of language, it seems to me, is the only kind of power a writer is entitled to.
Cynthia OzickI'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called "scientific" mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips.
Cynthia Ozick