I was just like, 'You know what? If I want to write about the culture war, I don't wanna be a pawn in it anymore.

Without myth, however, every culture loses its healthy creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myth that rounds off to unity a social movement.

A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and philology. It is the poetic testament of the genius of a race and culture and the living embodiment of the thoughts and fancies that have moulded them.

The cornerstone of education is an easy system of reading and writing. The key to this is the new Turkish alphabet based on the Latin script.

I look at Google and think they have a strong academic culture. Elegant solutions to complex problems.

And you find as a writer there are certain spots on the planet where you write better than others, and I believe in that. And New Orleans is one of them.