I do like that idea that music can work on two levels, and you only pick up on the second one after a few listens..

Style, is like a frog: you can dissect the thing, but it somehow dies in the process..

A language not based on universal symbols or sensations is gibberish, a pitfall of modern art, no longer modern..

Written forms obscure our view of language. They are not so much a garment as a disguise..

if there's one thing consistent about language it is that it is constantly changing. The only languages that do not change are those whose speakers a….

If your language is confused, your intellect, if not your whole character, will almost certainly correspond..

Are you making life or is life making you?.

I'm in no rush to become extremely famous..

She was the only woman he was afraid he would beg for..

That choice to be ready to reject all other purposes, in favor of the possibilities of language freed from utility, is when the writer becomes a poet..

Don't do nothing because you can't do everything. Do something!.

The poet is a master of language, the schizophrenic is a slave to it..

Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart..

One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand..

I like to wear things, I don't like things to wear me..

Language is by its very nature a communal thing..

I am not a Frenchie, I'm a Belgie!.

I'm flatulent in many languages..

At all periods of the [English] language it is difficult to assign a beginning date to most new words and meanings. They tend to slip into the langua….

My first language is Gaelic..

I like to keep the meanings in my work flowing and open..