Arguments about language are usually arguments about politics, disguised and channeled through one of our most distinctive markers of identity.

Thousands of miles from Georgia, beginning that night in England, my dad became a foreign-language speaker to me – and I was utterly charmed by it. I found the foreigner in myself.

There is really only one way to learn good writing: good reading and extensive writing and revising.

Yesterday's abomination is today's rule.

If you look at the historical record, you will find that language has always been in decline. Which means, really, and it never has.

Too many people are too angry about language too much of the time. This time could be better spent listening, learning, and enjoying the vast variety of human language around them.

I'd start to explain with the outward sheepish and inner pride of the nerd.

His captivating speech came not from his grammar or vocabulary but from the joy he took in wielding them well.

No one is absolutely free from religion and philosophy, for the life we live is always under the influence of religion and philosophy!

In order to make the egoism non-existent [zero], the Gnani Purush [the enlightened one] establishes the awareness of the Pure Soul within.

Independent inquiry is needed in your search for truth, not dependence on anyone else's view or a mere book.

I have confidence that God is with us in all things, both tender and tough

I'm not a proper anything. Majoring in philosophy kind of turns positive assertions into maybes.

To refuse to respond is in itself a response.

All intellectual missionaries tend to lechery.

As for myself, there are two things I dread, - death and marriage. I must die, but I need not marry. I have sworn I will never be taken alive.

When I got older, I chose to look at Christianity as another myth.

Art is what is irresistible.