Writing in English is like throwing mud at a wall.

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

There is a weird power in a spoken word.

My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.

If Bengali is my mother, then English is my father and friend.

If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless.