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. - Cynthia Ozick
To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination. - Cynthia Ozick
If a novel's salient aim is virtue, I want to throw it against the wall. - Cynthia Ozick
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey. - Cynthia Ozick
To want to be what one can be is purpose in life. - Cynthia Ozick