Language is like soil. However rich, it is subject to erosion, and its fertility is constantly threatened by uses that exhaust itsvitality. It needs constant re-invigoration if it is not to become arid and sterile.

The Republicans’ plan is that if they can’t buy the 2012 election they will steal it.

Money buys access; access buys influence.

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversations.

The test of literature is, I suppose, whether we ourselves live more intensely for the reading of it.

The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.

Language is like soil. However rich, it is subject to erosion, and its fertility is constantly threatened by uses that exhaust itsvitality. It needs constant re-invigoration if it is not to become arid and sterile.