Tolkien didn't just write 'The Hobbit,' he created a whole world.
Language is a nice way to remember things.
Words take on many different meanings.
Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.
No young doctor nowadays can hope for work as exciting and rewarding.
Words are so lovable. How could you not love words?
The London dialect as it is spoken in educated circles.
Peter Jackson has just really earned the right to be Tolkien's torchbearer on screen.
Different authors have different points of view. You can't just say, 'I believe in the Bible.
Lying is an indispensable part of making life tolerable.
Who has not served cannot command.
Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
I will remain on the throne until I fall off.
I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.
Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.
The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.
There are very few good ways to get publicity for a dictionary.
Faith in reason was the foundation stone of the United States.
Let not our longing slay the appetite of our living.
Everyone in the '80s was reading Tolkien; he invented this whole medieval fantasy genre.
The search for truth takes you where the evidence leads you, even if, at first, you don't want to go there.
