“Language is the instrument in all cases and can language be trusted?If it were not for language, could we lie?”

“We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.”

“Because we are linked by blood and blood is memory without language.”

“The denial of language is a suicidal one and we pay for it with our own lives.”

“These were no-man's-lands, limbos of a sort, places where language did not prevail and the only protection was flight, if you could run fast enough; or submission if you couldn't.”

“Paradox: how do we know what we have failed to see because we have no language to express it, thus we cannot know that we have failed to see it.”

“The standards for horror fiction should be no less than those for 'serious literary' fiction in which originality of concept, depth of characters, and attentiveness to language are vitally important.”