People do get mad at me for falling asleep sometimes, and it's the most frustrating thing. I can't help it.
American English is the greatest influence of English everywhere.
The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.
Lexicography is a chastening as well as an illuminating and fascinating art.
I believe it is imperative to see modern English grammar as a rich and diverse linguistic system deposited on our [England's] shores 1,500 years ago, and left with us unweakened, though substantially changed by the social and political events of the intervening period.
I am sure that the two main forms of English, American English and British English, separated geographically from the beginning and severed politically since 1776, are continuing to move apart, and that existing elements of linguistic dissimilarity between them will intensify as time goes on, notwithstanding the power of the cinema, TV, Time Magazine, and other two-way gluing and fuelling devices.
Computer users soon learn that the miraculous powers of personal computers are based on avoidance of error.
The American lawn uses more resources than any other agricultural industry in the world. It uses more phosphates than India and puts on more poisons than any other form of agriculture.
Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances.
Art for me is the science of freedom.
What we call normal may be the psycho-pathology of the average.