Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely.
George SteinerThe intellectual is, quite simply, a human being who has a pencil in his or her hand when reading a book.
George SteinerHe who has read Kafka's Metamorphosis and can look into his mirror unflinching may technically be able to read print, but is illiterate in the only sense that matters.
George SteinerPornographers 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 Steiner