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Language is wine upon the lips.

Words are all we have.

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.

English should be our official language. Reading and speaking English are requirements to become a citizen.

To become an American citizen, we require people to read, write and speak in English. That is to help them to assimilate in our melting pot, truly to become Americans. We mock that when the cherished right to vote does not involve English any more.

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Widow. The word consumes itself.

Words, without power, is mere philosophy.

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.