“There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.”
“There is no such thing as a dead language, only a dead lay that's a little too quiet for my tastes.”
“you're not dead-you're dormant.”
“I am the androgyne, I am the living mind you fail to describe in your dead language the lost noun, the verb surviving only in the infinitive the letters of my name are written under the lids of the newborn child”
“it was as if these memories had been hibernating in him, not dead but merely dormant, weathering out, and now they stumbled out of their thousand dens.”
“Where there's life, there's hope. Living people can change things, dead people cannot.”