Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.

The only reality we can ever truly know is that of our perceptions, our own consciousness, while that consciousness, and thus our entire reality, is made of nothing but signs and symbols. Nothing but language. Even God requires language before conceiving the Universe. See Genesis: “In the beginning was the Word.

For whatever the future holds, one thing is certain... It just won't be the same.

You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.

I genuinely like the people I meet at signings or the bits of public talking that I do.

They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away.

Our environments shape the way we see ourselves. If you have been condemned to live in an area that is pretty evidently a rat-run, then sooner or later you're gonna come to the conclusion that you're a rat.