The grammar of a language is simply the way it combines smaller elements (such as words) into larger elements (such as sentences).

The likelihood is that any English-speaking skier has more words for different types of snow than any inhabitant of Alaska or Greenland.

I recall that, the first time I met a Geordie speaker, it was some days before I could understand a single word he was saying.

A bet is a tax on bullshit; and it is a just tax, tribute paid by the bullshitters to those with genuine knowledge.

I had been seasoned by adversity, and tutored by experience, and I longed to redeem my lost honour in the eyes of those whose opinion was more than that of all the world to me.

In general, I'm not much into etiquette and am a rule-breaker and rebel by nature.

We are made loveless by our possessions.

All our yesterdays are summarized in our now, and all the tomorrows are ours to shape.

The bureaucracies that are in place now, they're not going to change, they're not going to stop.

Well blest is he who has a dear one dead; A friend he has whose face will never change- A dear communion that will not grow strange; The anchor of a love is death.

Don't be afraid to show who you are.

I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation.