When a language creates – as it does – a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.

Geniuses are at work in the rock music field, and great popularity is no proof you aren’t good.

Geniuses are people who notice things and connections between things which others haven’t noticed. Genius must be a surprise.

That's not the same thing as saying that the latest account that he gives should be unmistakably taken as the whole truth and nothing but the truth. I wouldn't say he never wanted to be followed or be called a leader. (But) he probably wanted it less than it seemed at the time.

When a language creates -- as it does -- a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.

When a language creates as it does a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.

When a language creates - as it does - a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.

A great work of art is one that continues to repay attention.

For it is characteristic of true simplicity that there may radiate from its utmost directness a good many glinting things.

Geniuses are people who notice things and connections between things which others haven't noticed. Genius must be a surprise.