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In many people it is already an impertinence to say 'I'.

I never use the word 'I' when I interview someone. I think it's irrelevant.

To a physicist, we have the 'I' word, the I-word is 'impossible.' That's dangerous.

I was trained as journalist never to use the word 'I,' never to put my own opinion there. In fact, if you had a dollar or a euro for every time I use the word 'I,' you would be a poor person. But this is not true in general. I like the idea of being able to stand away and make a judgement.

French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well.

There is no 'I.' That's an illusion we've got to get beyond.

I still put punctuation in my texts. If it's an 'I', I make sure it's a capital.

The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

'I' is the word everyone uses to refer to themselves. On the one hand, it points to a specific person, but it's also this blank space that you can insert yourself into; it's a chute into empathy.