The reason for privacy is not so that people will not know you go to the bathroom. It's to allow certain things to go on that you don't want other people to know about, when all is said and done. But the things I don't want other people to know about are not my sex life.

The problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand.

What you are will make you what you will become.

A sentence has meaning in the sense that a train has a track, not that a train has a passenger.

Linguistics is very much a science. It's a human science, one of the human sciences. And it's one of the more interesting human sciences.

Babes, I am so bored here that I don't think, since I've come, I've ever been more than three minutes away from some really astonishing act of violence.

Discourse says, 'You are.' Rhetoric preserves the freedom to say, 'I am not.