Given 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 SteinerThe very opposite of freedom is cliche, and nothing is less free, more inert with convention and hollow brutality, than a row of four-letter words.
George SteinerEvery language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.
George SteinerThe intellectual is, quite simply, a human being who has a pencil in his or her hand when reading a book.
George Steiner