To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination

We have had, alas, and still have, the doubtful habit of reverence. Above all, we respect things as they are.

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

The art of fiction is freedom of will for your characters.

What was lost in the European cataclysm was not only the Jewish past--the whole life of a civilization--but also a major share ofthe Jewish future.... [ellipsis in source] It was not only the intellect of a people in its prime that was excised, but the treasure of a people in its potential.

I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing.

Traveling is seeing; it is the implicit that we travel by.