“The world speaks many languages, the boy thought”
“After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?”
“To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.”
“Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.”
“Theologians may quarrel, but the mystics of the world speak the same language.”
“The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that. ”