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

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.

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

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

Yesterday's abomination is today's rule.

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.

Other men are unaware of what they do when they are awake just as they are forgetful of what they do when they are asleep.

With great hotness comes great responsibility.

Maybe I should publish the book. The world is coming to an end anyway!

Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don't, there are consequences you'll have to deal with later in life.

I do read music, but I prefer playing from the heart.

The craziest thing about TV directing is I turned in a version, and then they made their final changes - so I don't know what they are. So I'm like, "Ooo, I'm dying to see the final print."

SUCCESS is not about HERE and NOW. you must pass the TEST OF TIME. the litmus test is FIFTY YEARS from now. SUCCESS is SUCCESSION.

Intellect, without heart, is infinitely cruel. . . . So that, after all, the real aristocracy must be that of goodness where the intellect is directed by the heart.

I am the skeptic of skeptics.

"Animals are happy," said the queen. "They run no risk of going to hell." "They are there already," replied Josiana.