To think, it seems to me, is to hold an idea long enough to unlock and shape its power in the varied contexts of shared human knowledge.

Thinking ... is a soundless dialogue, it is the weaving of patterns, it is a search for meaning. The activity of thought contributes to and shapes all that is specifically human.

Generative ideas emerge from joint thinking, from significant conversations, and from sustained, shared struggles to achieve new insights from partners in thought.

Language is double-edged; through words a fuller view of reality emerges, but words can also serve to fragment reality.

When you start lying, you stop building trust. When you stop lying, you start building trust.

As long as men will not be freed from their errors and delusions, humanity will not be able to go towards ("marcher vers", Fr.) the accomplishment of its true destinies.

Every monster was a man first.

But the past couple of days I’ve missed you so much it’s felt like missing you is all I am.

The Universe does not know if the vibration you are offering is because of what you are imagining, or because of what you are observing.

A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested.

To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth…but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.

I think the close work I do as a translator pays off in my writing - I'm always searching for multiple ways to say things.

I'm not an advocate for everything that rolls out of the laboratory. I'm an advocate for things sanctioned by millennia of usage.

Jesters do oft prove prophets.