“If you’ve got a dozen pitchers, you need to speak 12 different languages.”

“As long as human beings speak different languages, the need for translation will continue.”

“How many words are you having trouble with, sir?""Just the ones that I've highlighted.""I count at least a dozen, and I haven't gotten out of the first paragraph.""That's as far as I got, too. I'm not sure you and I speak the same language.”

“He may well speak French and Latin and half a dozen languages, but since he has nothing to say – what good are they?”

“Okay, rule number one: if you do not understand something, you need to stop me and tell me you don’t understand. If I ask if you’ve got it and you say you’ve got it but you don’t really have it, then it’s not my fault that you haven’t got it. Got it?”

“Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect?”