It isn't the instrument that influences High-Minded or Low-Minded; it's the quality of Mind itself.
Cynthia OzickThe secular Jew is a figment; when a Jew becomes a secular person he is no longer a Jew.
Cynthia OzickImagine 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.
Cynthia Ozick