“I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones. ...”

“Yours(now I'm even losing my name - it was getting shorter and shorter all the time and is now: Yours)”

“I long for you; I who usually longs without longing, as though I am unconscious and absorbed in neutrality and apathy, really, utterly long for every bit of you.”

“sleep is the most innocent creature there is and a sleepless manthe most guilty.”

“If I could drown in sleep as I drown in fear I would be no longer alive.”

“All right then, Ill be mad at you on this score, which incidentally is no great misfortune, as things balance out quite well if theres a little anger for you lurking in one corner of my heart.”

“I dont know or understand any other language except the language of kindness.”

“Her English was sweet, an effort for her, anachronistic and unpractised.”

“I don’t know or understand any other language except the language of kindness.”

“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...”

“A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.”

“I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.”

“Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.”