Quotes from Jay Rubin

Be as vigilantly on guard against translating such a sentence into the passive voice as you would against committing murder.

The bones came jumbled together from the kitchen... there was no way of telling my parents from my Brothers and Sisters. I put them all in the same urn. Sometimes, late at night, I hold them in my hands and cry.

Aus irgendeinem Grund ist das, was mich berührt, immer etwas, das ich nicht verstanden habe.

Sorrow never heals. We simply take comfort in the fact that our pain seems to fade.

Instead of pressuring the Japanese into lowering trade barriers or taking a greater share of the responsibility for their own defense, we should be urging them to bring their verbs from the ends of their sentences into second place, right after their subjects, where they belong.