What is the task of the translator? I think the task depends on the book and on the translator.

A single conversation can change things.

I've never had the impulse for someone else to translate me into my own language. My impulse has always been to translate someone else into mine.

It would be great if I woke up tomorrow and could speak Persian. Wouldn't you love to wake and have a language in your mind that wasn't there the night before?

Humor is serious work. But it keeps everybody at the table.

To have made a coat of words and cloaked yourself in it.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

PRESENTABLE, adj. Hideously appareled after the manner of the time and place.

It's fun, working with different people, everybody works differently. When I have time off from music, I want to make other music. That's what I do, that's what's fun, that's what makes me happy.

I like listening to books as well, as that way you can iron at the same time.

Smart drafting is a wonderful thing. A smart free-agent signing is a wonderful thing. Smart trades are a wonderful thing, and that's a function of management.

She had a fierce pleasure in the idea of telling Margaret unwelcome truths, in the shape of performance of duty.

The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief.

If you build it, nerds will come.

The field of quantum valence fluctuations was another older interest which became much more active during this period, partly as a consequence of my own efforts.

I'm at the age where I want two girls. In case I fall asleep they will have someone to talk to.