Pornographers subvert this last, vital privacy; they do our imagining for us. They take away the words that were of the night and shout them over the roof-tops, making them hollow.
George SteinerIf there is a chronic infirmity by which every teacher ought to be afflicted, it is, indeed, hope.
George SteinerGiven my age, I am pretty near the end, probably, of my career as a writer, a scholar, a teacher. And I wanted to speak of things I will not be able to do.
George Steiner