It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.

I don't think anyone ever gets over the surprise of how differently one audience's reaction is from another.

Being the offspring of English teachers is a mixed blessing. When the film star says to you, on the air, 'It was a perfect script for she and I,' inside your head you hear, in the sarcastic voice of your late father, 'Perfect for she, eh? And perfect for I, also?'

You would have to be naive to think you can appear on television and not have the material edited in some way.

I don't see the future as bright, language-wise. I see it as a glass half empty - and evaporating quickly.

Lawyers work hard and, like us, they're human, many of them.

Sloppy language leads to sloppy thought, and sloppy thought to sloppy legislation.