Quote of the Day (Carlos Fuentes, on How Language Is Shared)

“Language is a shared and sharing part of culture that cares little about formal classifications and much about vitality and connection, for culture itself perishes in purity or isolation, which is the deadly wages of perfection. Like bread and love, language is shared with others. And human beings share a tradition. There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.”—Carlos Fuentes (1928-2012), “How I Started to Write,” in Myself With Others:Selected Essays (1990)