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

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

“Writing! The activity for which the only adequate bribe is the possibility of suicide, one day.”

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

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

“The surreal is as integral a part of our lives as the 'real,' although one might argue that, since the unconscious underlies consciousness, and we are continuously bombarded by images, moods, and memories from that uncharitable terrain, it is in fact more primary than the 'real.”

“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.”