“I have dozens of loyal fans! Baker's dozens! they come in thirteens.”

“They focused a large amount of their wrath on people trying to add dialogue about feminism and diversity in gaming, condemning them as Social Justice Warriors. (That label was always so weird to me...”

“Denial is strong with this one.”

“I couldnt trust my own mind anymore, which wasthe scariest thing Ive ever experienced.”

“I had no confidence in myself. I was a fraud. Who was I to pick up a pen and expect anything good to come from it? I expected perfection as soon as the pencil hit the paper, and since that's imposs...”

“In retrospect, crappy chemicals in my brain were working overtime, driving me to destroy myself, like that thing that makes lemmings throw themselves over a cliff.”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”

“If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.”

“We are looking for a tongue that speaks with reverence for life, searching for an ecology of mind. Without it, we have no home, no place of our own within the creation. It is not only the vocabular...”

“But Sasha was from Russia, where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden and sentences are often left unfinished from doubt as how to best end them.”

“Why the Egyptian, Arabic, Abyssinian, Choctaw? Well, what tongue does the wind talk? What nationality is a storm? What country do rains come from? What color is lightning? Where does thunder goe wh...”

“My love for languages and my love for travel really go hand in hand and feed off of each other. Theres no better way to learn a language than by immersing yourself in a culture where its spoken, an...”

“With languages, you can move from one social situation to another. With languages, you are at home anywhere.”

“Learning a new language, just like opening a new window, allows you to see the world with intimacy.”