I love body language.

I don't condone bad language.

Spanish is such an important language globally.

I learned English, my sixth language at this point, quite quickly.

If you talk about language in the Caribbean, you must relate it to history.

Every usage, no matter how bizarre or nonstandard, fascinates me, as it tells me something about the way language is evolving.

For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance.

In a society that celebrates the inessential, architecture can put up a resistance, counteract the waste of forms and meanings and speak its own language.

The publishing industry, unsurprisingly, is full of different people who love different things and express that love in different languages. Find the people, the editors and agents, with whom you share some language, and some sense of what makes literature worth reading.

Music is indeed the universal language and unites people.

One thing I wish I'd been told in school is that my language is valid.

I love playing with language and the rhythm of language - for some reason, this seems so much easier for me to do when I get to make things up than when writing nonfiction.

In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.

You would get some fantastic syntactical phenomena. You would hear people talking in Barbados in the exact melody as a minor character in Shakespeare. Because here you have a thing that was not immured and preserved and mummified, but a voluble language, very active, very swift, very sharp.

Icons speak icon language.

I'm always very keen to learn a skill or a language for my films.

OK, so we all know that 'Borat' is humiliatingly, career-endingly unfunny (one trick too many for one-trick pony Sacha Double-Barelled) - but can anyone explain why the 'character' isn't roundly condemned for being as unacceptably racist as the one-dimensional stereotypes from 70s sitcoms such as 'Mind Your Language?'

It's fascinating when you're from another place, but you don't speak the language.

Certain things were deemed to be offensive. It was usually bad language.

I feed on good soup, not beautiful language.