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

The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.

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

Of comic novels that have quaffed the elixir of 'classic': Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm.

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

After a certain number of years, our faces become our biographies.

The engineering is secondary to the vision.