We were born to die; we were born to endure, on the way to death, sorrow-sorrow in manifold shapes.

Time at length becomes justice.

Wars, invented and organized by the highest available consciousnesses (do the worms go to war? do the fish? do the paramecia?), are the planet's chief source and cause of torment.

The engineering is secondary to the vision.

Much of the academy on the humanities side, English departments in particular, no longer write what can pass for normal English.

Life is that which - pressingly, persistently, unfailingly, imperially - interrupts.

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.