“I have students who are now in chairs in five continents. They invite ...” — George Steiner Quote

“I have students who are now in chairs in five continents. They invite me to their inaugurals. A tremendous reward.”

“Central to everything I am and believe and have written is my astonishment, naive as it seems to people, that you can use human speech both to bless, to love, to build, to forgive and also to torture, to hate, to destroy and to annihilate.”

“I believe that a work of art, like metaphors in language, can ask the most serious, difficult questions in a way which really makes the readers answer for themselves; that the work of art far more than an essay or a tract involves the reader, challenges him directly and brings him into the argument.”

“There's really nothing like a live audience right there. When you're in a bad show, you can hear the creaks in the chairs.”

“Trees are essentially growing chairs. There are lots of primates that sit and sleep in them.”

“I'm sick of people sittin' in chairs stating their problems. Then we roll the videotape... then we have our experts on the topic... I'm in the 'What's next?' phase of my career.”