“Think, for example, of the words which you perhaps utter in this space of time. They are no longer part of this language. And in different surroundings the institution of money doesn’t exist either.”

“Time exists in order that everything doesn’t happen all at once…and space exists so that it doesn’t all happen to you.”

“There have existed, and for the time being still exist, many cultures whose members refuse to cut the vocal cords of the planet, and refuse to enter into the deadening deal which we daily accept as part of living. It is perhaps significant that prior to contact with Western Civilization many of these cultures did not have rape, nor did they have child abuse (the Okanagans of what is now British Columbia, to provide just one example, had neither word nor concept in their language corresponding to the abuse of a child.)”

“It is a curiously moving experience, to hear 350 sailors uttering the words "Oh shit!" in eleven different languages.”

“Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it.”

“I can’t afford to waste either my money or my time—but that doesn’t stop me from trying.”