A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise. - George Steiner
When a language dies, a possible world dies with it. - George Steiner
when a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world. - George Steiner
Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity - George Steiner