I admire writers who can make complicated things simple, but my own talent has been to make simple things complicated..

A curious thing about written literature: It is about four thousand years old, but we have no way of knowing whether four thousand years constitutes ….

The Genie declared that in his time and place there were scientists of the passions who maintained that language itself, on the one hand, originated ….

Finally you begin to make your mistakes on the highest level-let's say the upper slopes of slippery Parnassus-and it's at that point you need coachin….