You don’t realise how language actually interferes with communication until you don’t have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense.

There is something about finding the balance to one's nature - perhaps a culture that flourishes is a culture that has found a similar balance among its people.

The impulse to touch her and all the life in her was something I had to check regularly.

You don't struggle with these questions?""No. But I've always thought my opinion was the right one. It's a small flaw I have.""An American flaw.

Go. Go to your beautiful dances, your beautiful ceremonies. And we will bury our dead.

Sometimes you just find a culture that breaks your heart, ” she said finally.

He smelled of cigarettes and whiskey, the smell of Cambridge and youth.

Surely it is more civilized to kill one man every few months, hold up his head for all to behold, say his name, and return home for a feast than to slaughter nameless millions.

The greatest gift a parent can give a child is self-confidence.

up upIf someone deprives you of history deprives you of your future

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Every object and purpose of justice is effectually answered, and every supposed inconvenience is effectually rebutted by the law as it stands.

Poetry is the memory of language

Always trying new things is always more fun, and it can be scary, but it's always more fun in the end.

The rich experience of history teaches that up to now not a single class has voluntarily made way for another class.

We are stronger than those who oppress us, who seek to silence us. We are stronger than the enemies of education. We are stronger than fear, hatred, violence and poverty.

Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything.

When I was fifteen years old, the only distinction in music my friends and I made was [that] there's music made by people with short hair and music made by people with long hair.