“The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.”

“Because everyone uses language to talk, everyone thinks they can talk about language.”

“London is a language. I guess all places are.”

“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more...”

“For words like Nature half reveal And half conceal the Soul within.”

“Language is a virus from outer space”

“Use language what you will, you can never say anything but what you are.”

“We live and breathe words.”

“No, she wasn't losing language. She was choking on it.”

“To use language is to enter into the territory of categories, which are as necessary as they are dangerous.”

“Words are things. The words he is in possession of he cannot be deprived of. Their authority transcends his ignorance of...”

“Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.”