Tragedy speaks not of secular dilemmas which may be resolved by rational innovation, but of the unalterable bias toward inhumanity and destruction in the drift of the world.

When a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world.

Language is the main instrument of man's refusal to accept the world as it is.

My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do.

Every language is a world. Without translation, we would inhabit parishes bordering on silence.

Literature and the arts are also criticism in a more particular and practical sense. They embody an expository reflection on, a value judgement of, the inheritance and context to which they pertain.

More and more lower-middle-income families either live their lives in debt or leave the city altogether. The boom is strictly at the penthouse level.