"I never intended to write solely about Arab characters, or even primarily about them, but because they were such a bi…"

"…I think that was really important growing up around story tellers like my dad and my uncles. I think it instilled a …"

"…I pretended I didn't understand Arabic when he spoke to me in public places. Because when I was a younger child, Ara…"

"Scientific education is catholic; it embraces the whole field of human learning. No student can master all knowledge …"

"Honest investigation is but the application of common sense to the solution of the unknown. Science does not wait on …"

"Years of drought and famine come and years of flood and famine come, and the climate is not changed with dance, libat…"

"The verb is relatively of much greater importance in an Indian tongue than in a civilized language."

"Possible ideas and thoughts are vast in number. A distinct word for every distinct idea and thought would require a v…"

"The integers of language are sentences, and their organs are the parts of speech. Linguistic organization, then, cons…"

"Indian nouns are extremely connotive; that is, the name does more than simply denote the thing to which it belongs; i…"