• Travelers are fantasists, conjurers, seers - and what they finally discover is that every round object everywhere is a crystal ball: stone, teapot, the marvelous globe of the human eye.

    Cynthia Ozick: Travelers are fantasists, conjurers, seers - and what they finally discover is that every round object everywhere is a crystal ball: stone, teapot, the marvelous globe of the human eye.
    Cynthia Ozick (1987). “The Messiah of Stockholm: a novel”, Alfred A. Knopf