In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all.

No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality.

No important national language, at least in the Occidental world, has complete regularity of grammatical structure, nor is there a single logical category which is adequately and consistently handled in terms of linguistic symbolism.

Impatience translates itself into a desire to have something immediate done about it all, and, as is generally the case with impatience, resolves itself in the easiest way that lies ready to hand.

In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all.

One of the glories of English simplicity is the possibility of using the same word as noun and verb.

Language is an anonymous, collective and unconscious art; the result of the creativity of thousands of generations.