I didn't understand the language and didn't know what was going on at all.

He can't read lips and doesn't know sign language. The only way he can communicate is by reading notes. He has a hard time reading, and a trial could take months.

We have a president for whom English is a second language. He's like 'We have to get rid of dictators,' but he's pretty much one himself.

It's a local derby, a great occasion and a massive turnout.

Language is, then, positively a distinctly human opening of and opening to the world: Not just a distinguishable or instrumental but a constitutive faculty.

We sit and talk,
quietly, with long lapses of silence
and I am aware of the stream
that has no language, coursing
beneath the quiet heaven of
your eyes
which has no speech