Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books-they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past.
Politically correct is the language of cowardice.
If I had a hammer, there'd be no more folksingers.
If you're going to do an interview about a movie or anything like that, you're vulnerable. You say stupid things. Or if you're applying for a green card you feel very vulnerable and you're likely to spout out something stupid in the middle of it all.
It's my mind, and I reserve the right to change it as often as I like.
I think the longer Britain is in Europe the better.
Marriage is a wonderful invention: then again, so is a bicycle repair kit.
Any idiot can make money. Keeping money, very few can do.
Anyway, culture and nation are partners, inextricable from each other. National culture and nation, they are reciprocities.
There is no such thing as a language, not if a language is anything like what many philosophers and linguists have supposed. Thereis therefore no such thing to be learned, mastered, or born with. We must give up the idea of a clearly defined shared structure which language-users acquire and then apply to cases.
Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.