Cynthia Ozick

Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.

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

I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called "scientific" mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips.

To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination.