You know, I think there are certain words like 'illegitimate' that should not be used to describe a person. And certainly, we have come far enough...

Ever since the arrival of printing - thought to be the invention of the devil because it would put false opinions into people's minds - people have been...

The technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them - the 'physical book,' a new phrase in our language - is also making the physical book...

When I started out as a music journalist, at the end of the 1980s, it was generally assumed that we were living through the lamest music era the world would ever see. But...

When everyone in the world spoke the same language, God came down in judgment, breaking the world apart. But at just the right time, he...

On stage, you're not limited at all because you're free in language: language is the source of the imagination. Yo...

I travel around the world, experiencing every language, every religion... some places where there's just no...

There's no neutral language about travel. Either travel is described in ways that make it sound kind of shallow or just glossy or silly or a way for rich people to spend...

No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming incr...

It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because on bad days you don't trust yourself, e...

Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in lang...

I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true,...