A Committee Is An Animal With Four

To Possess Another Language Is To Possess Another Soul.

Yet It's Not For Want Of Future That I'm Here, He Thought. It's For Want Of A Present.

I Move My Lips When I Read -- I'm Painfully Slow -- So I Like Really Good English.

I Grew Up In A Completely Bookless Household. It Was My Father's Boast That He Had Never Read A Book From End To End. I Don't Remember Any Of His Ladies Being Bookish. So I Was Entirely Dependent On My Schoolteachers For My Early Reading With The Exception Of The Wind In The Willows, Which A Stepmother Read To Me When I Was In Hospital.

It's Easy To Forget What Intelligence Consists Of: Luck And Speculation. Here And There A Windfall, Here And There A Scoop.