"James (like the far more visceral Conrad) seizes your life. "
— Cynthia Ozick (Trust: A Novel)

"If I had to say what writing is, we would define it essentially as an act of courage."
— Cynthia Ozick

"This is what travelers discover: that when you sever the links of normality and its claims, when you break off from the quotidian, it is the teapots that truly shock."
— Cynthia Ozick

"What we remember from childhood we remember forever - permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen."
— Cynthia Ozick