“ Language is the tool of the tools”

“Through others we become ourselves.”

“A word devoid of thought is a dead thing, and a thought unembodied in words remains a shadow.”

“Through others, we become ourselves.”

“... People with great passions, people who accomplish great deeds, people who possess strong feelings, even people with great minds and a strong personality, rarely come out of good little boys and girls.”

“Fanfiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band of brilliant pop-culture junkies trapped in a sealed bunker. They don't do it for money. That's not what it's about. The writers write it and put it up online just for the satisfaction. They're fans, but they're not silent, couchbound consumers of media. The culture talks to them, and they talk back to the culture in its own language.”

“By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.”