Dispersed as the Jews are, they still form one nation, foreign to the land they live in.

Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journey. Travel -movement through space -provided the universal metaphor for change. One of the subtle confusions -perhaps one of the secret terrors -of modern life is that we have lost this refuge. No longer do we move through space as we once did.

Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.

We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires.

Books are messengers of freedom. They can be hidden under a mattress or smuggled into slave nations.

destruction is easy for humans but creation is too difficult.

The improved American highway system isolated the American-in-transit. On his speedway he had no contact with the towns which he by-passed. If he stopped for food or gas, he was served no local fare or local fuel, but had one of Howard Johnson's nationally branded ice cream flavors, and so many gallons of Exxon. This vast ocean of superhighways was nearly as free of culture as the sea traversed by the Mayflower Pilgrims.