No one likes my books except the public..

A cliche is like a coin that has been handled too much. Once language has been overly handled, it no longer leaves a clear imprint..

...I can’t stop squirming. If fidgets were Wikipedia edits, I would have completely revamped the entry on guilt by now, and translated it into five n….

A cliché is like a coin that has been handled too much. Once language has been overly handled, it no longer leaves a clear imprint..

Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we should not live..

RIBALDRY, n. Censorious language by another concerning oneself..

Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar..

Language was invented because of the deep human need to complain..

The gentleman is generous and treats all men as his equals, especially those whom he feels to be inferior in rank and wealth..

If you must kill English officials, why not kill me instead?.

Selfish-gene theory tells us nothing about the value of interacting through language..

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda..

The liberation of language is rooted in the liberation of ourselves..

Language is a very complicated thing, and that's one of the reasons why I like making photographs..

We must be capable of speaking a language of peace, but not one of surrender..

It seems clear that the Bible belongs to an area of language in which metaphor is functional, and were we have to surrender precision for flexibility..

When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it's funny in any language..

…only a poet could frame a language that could frame a world..

Poetry doesn't function by saying things straightforwardly because the language is too imprecise, too limited often, to address the underlying subjec….

I've become obsessed with learning other languages in movies, because I was like, since I was like, but I learned how to box so why don't I just lear….

I am a guest of the French language. My poems in French are born of my interaction with the French language, which is not the same as that of a Frenc….