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.

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

What I felt then I feel now: the inexorable, unchanging interior hum of doubt and hope.

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

Advances in technology neither impede nor augment literature.

We are so placid that the smallest tremor of objection is taken as a full-scale revolution.

Awe consumes any brand that ignites it.