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.

The imagination has resources and intimations we don't even know about.

very bright teeth as big and orderly as piano keys.

It is useless either to hate or to love truth - but it should be noticed.

The secular Jew is a figment; when a Jew becomes a secular person he is no longer a Jew.

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

We are so placid that the smallest tremor of objection to anything at all is taken as a full-scale revolution. Should any soul speak up in favor of the obvious, it is taken as a symptom of the influence of the left, the right, the pink, the black, the dangerous. An idea for its own sake - especially an obvious idea - has no respectability.