S. I. Hayakawa (1906-1992)

Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa was a Canadian-born American academic and politician of Japanese ancestry. A professor of English, he served as president of San Francisco State University and then as U.S. Senator from California from 1977 to 1983.

Quotes

I'm going to speak my mind because I have nothing to lose.
In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture than you are a victim of it.