The whispers of shared ecstasy are choral.

I have every reason to believe that an individual man or woman fluent in several tongues seduces, possesses, remembers differently according to his or her use of the relevant language.

I have students who are now in chairs in five continents. They invite me to their inaugurals. A tremendous reward.

Bookishness, highest literacy, every technique of cultural propaganda and training not only can accompany bestiality and oppression and despotism but at certain points foster it.

To ask larger questions is to risk getting things wrong. Not to ask them at all is to constrain the life of understanding

If, in the Judaic perception, the language of the Adamic was that of love, the grammars of fallen man are those of the legal code.

I owe everything to a system that made me learn by heart till I wept. As a result I have thousands of lines of poetry by heart. I owe everything to this.