“In a broad and true sense, good conversation is life-giving: it inspires and invigorates... livelieness in our use of language, both oral and written, matters: how lively language is life-giving – how it may literally, physiologically, quicken our breath, evoke our laughter, raise our eyebrows, open our hearts, renew our energies. Lively language invents and evokes and sustains.”
