National languages are all huge systems of vested interests which sullenly resist critical inquiry.

Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations.

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

Were a language ever completely "grammatical" it would be a perfect engine of conceptual expression. Unfortunately, or luckily, no language is tyrannically consistent. All grammars leak.

A firm, for instance, that does business in many countries of the world is driven to spend an enormous amount of time, labour, and money in providing for translation services.

Nonverbal communication is an elaborate secret code that is written nowhere, known by none, and understood by all.

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