It is significant that one says book lover and music lover and art lover but not record lover or CD lover or, conversely, text lover.

Vengeful conquerors burn books as if the enemy's souls reside there, too.

I can't remember the last book that taught me so much, and so well, about what it means to be human.

Thinking about language, while thinking _in_ language, leads to puzzles and paradoxes.

You can't waste time and you can't save time; you can only choose what you do at any given moment.

Google is where we go for answers. People used to go elsewhere or, more likely, stagger along not knowing.

Children and scientists share an outlook on life. If I do this, what will happen? is both the motto of the child at play and the defining refrain of the physical scientist. ... The unfamiliar and the strange - these are the domain of all children and scientists.