What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.

It is true that money attracts; but much money repels.

In books, as in life, there are no second chances. On second thought: its the next work, still to be written, that offers the second chance.

An essay is a thing of the imagination. If there is information in an essay, it is by-the-by, and if there is an opinion, one need not trust it for the long run. A genuine essay rarely has an educational, polemical, or sociopolitical use; it is the movement of a free mind at play.

In real life wishing, divorced from willing, is sterile and begets nothing.

The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.

Imagine an American Hans Christian Andersen, conceive of the Brothers Grimm living in Missouri, and you will approximate Howard Schwartz, a fable-maker and fable-gatherer seduced by the uncanny and the unearthly. In Lilith's Cave, he once again reaches into a magical cornucopia of folklore and fantasy and spreads before us, in enchanting language, the marvels and shocks of dybbuks, ghosts, demons, spirits, and wizards.