To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cann...

I'm not trying to stump anybody... it's the beauty of the la...

The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty,...

The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and d...

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the be...

I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a...

I can still remember the afternoon, on my 15th birthday, when I opened up 'The Virgin and the Gypsy,' D.H. Lawrence's novella, in my tiny cell in boarding school, and who...

Peru is a country where more than half the people would emigrate if given the chance. That's half the population that is willing to abandon everything th...

In general, I agree with Jacob Grimm and feel that we ought to permit changes and uncontrolled growth in language. Even though that also allows potentially threat...

Yankees don't understand that the Southern way of talking is a language of nuance. What we can do in the South is we can take a word and chang...

Swearing is industry language. For as long as we're alive it's not going to change....

The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another,...