Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.

A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that…

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

In the early years, you fight because you don't understand each other. In the later years, you fight because you do.

Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing.

Grammar little by little is not a thing. Which may gain. There. Make twenty-five be a woman. The meaning of that does not interest me. It is a complexion that …

Grammar, perfectly understood, enables us, not only to express our meaning fully and clearly, but so to express it as to enable us to defy the ingenuity of man…