The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion. — George Steiner
The ordinary man casts a shadow in a way we do not quite understand. The man of genius casts light. — George Steiner
There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness. — George Steiner
To many men… the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war. — George Steiner
We know that a man can read goethe or rilke in the evening, that he can play bach and schubert — George Steiner