The love of language is the love of truth, and this brings one into conflict with authority, since power employs deceit and is so fond of it — Rexroth said: "The accepted official version of anything is most likely false ... all authority is based on fraud" — but the love of language is a fundamental connection to our fellows and is a basis of true civility.
—Garrison Keillor, American writer and humorist, Good Poems, 2002