“This is important, Your Honor, because it establishes the fact that language, like blood, is a living thing that proceeds forward in… — Andrei Codrescu Copy Share Image
It's still a mystery to me exactly how I learned the language. [But] I was 19 years old and I had very… — Andrei Codrescu Copy Share Image
The real technology -behind all our other technologies- is language. It actually creates the world our consciousness lives in. — Andrei Codrescu Copy Share Image
“With the sound of gusting wind in the branches of the language trees of Babel, the words gave way like leaves, and… — Andrei Codrescu Copy Share Image
“The richness of our ethnic insults vocabulary was wide and deep. It reflected, all too easily, the more elaborate predjiduces of our parents (not… — Andrei Codrescu Copy Share Image
“The real secret, though, is that nobody belongs, whether they are natives or not. After expulsion from paradise all humans are in exile. You… — Andrei Codrescu Copy Share Image
“The internet liquefied physical borders faster than they were already doing on their own. For all that, there are only regional writers. There are… — Andrei Codrescu Copy Share Image
“Poetry is again hip in America as people are beginning to refuse to die of boredom and to choke in the fog of their… — Andrei Codrescu Copy Share Image
“Our ancestors had fought and murdered one another, married and forged alliances, founded countries. At their best - but only for selfish reasons -… — Andrei Codrescu Copy Share Image
Nostalgia is masochism and masochism is something masochists love to share. — Andrei Codrescu Copy Share Image
There is no ´Complete Idiots Guide to Creationism,´ but perhaps one is not needed. — Andrei Codrescu Copy Share Image
Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother?s. — Andrei Codrescu Copy Share Image
“It is a sad fact that all flesh must die, but there is no reason why one's story, as well as one's soul, should… — Andrei Codrescu Copy Share Image
