“the origin of consciousness is the initiation of the sign-user into the world of signs by a sign-giver.”

“The fateful law of human semiotics is this: that of all the objects in the entire Cosmos which the sign-user can apprehend through the conjoining of signifier and signified (word uttered and thing beheld), there is one which forever escapes his comprehension--and that is the sign-user himself...The self of the sign-user can never be grasped, because, once the self locates itself at the dead center of its world, there is no signified to which a signifier can be joined to make a sign. The self has no sign of itself. No signifier applies. All signifiers apply equally.”

“Originality, not Intelligence, is the sign of a brilliant Author. All the Education in the world won't help someone who can't think for themselves.”

“A scar is a sign of strength. . .the sign of a survivor.”

“Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.”

“I think they should change STOP signs to PAUSE signs.”