"The structure of a fully articulated profession is such that those who enter its precincts will find that the basic d…"

"Literary interpretation, like virtue, is its own reward. I do it because I like the way I feel when I'm doing it."

"We marvel at them; we read them aloud to our friends and spouses, even, occasionally, to passersby; we analyze them; …"

"No word floats without an anchoring connection within an overall structure."

"It may sound paradoxical, but verbal fluency is the product of many hours spent writing about nothing, just as musica…"

"Know what makes a sentence more than a random list, practice constructing sentences and explaining what you have done…"

"People write or speak sentences in order to produce an effect, and the success of a sentence is measured by the degre…"

"Sentence writers are not copyists; they are selectors."

"What we know of the world comes to us through words, or, to look at it from the other direction, when we write a sent…"

"Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dea…"