“The past is an immense area of stony ground that many people would like to drive across as if it were a motorway, while others move patiently from stone to stone, lifting each one because they need to know what lies beneath.”

“We have progressed from the stone age and moved on to the age of stone hearted people”

“While the Arab guerrillas were moving in, the Arab civilian population was moving out. —I.F. Stone reporting from Israel during 1948 War of Independence”

“The wand waved; the Adam's Apple leapt, and they were off. What followed cannot be indicated typographically. But if a cat were a sawmill, and a dog were a gigantic cart full of tin cans bouncing through a stone paved street, and that dog and that cat hated each other and were telling each other so, it would sound much like it.”

“People who walk across dark bridges, past saints,with dim, small lights.Clouds which move across gray skiespast churcheswith towers darkened in the dusk.One who leans against granite railinggazing into the evening waters,His hands resting on old stones.”

“And art exists that one may recover the sensation of life; it exists to make one feel things, to make the stone stony.”