Every usage, no matter how bizarre or nonstandard, fascinates me, as it tells me something about the way language is evolving.

I write to explore something that fascinates me, and I write the way I do because it is the only way I know how to write.

The death of a language. The word has the same kind of reluctant resonance as it has when we talk about the death of a person. And indeed, that's how it should be. For that's how it is. A language dies only when the last person who speaks it dies.

There's something in music that fascinates me - how it communicates emotion so immediately. That's something I wanted in my paintings.

Anyone interested in language ends up writing about the sociological issues around it.

We are rearing a generation of kids who are more equitable and more understanding about the existence of language variety and why it is there.