“I had thought that words were instruments of precision. Now I know that they devour the world, leaving nothing in its place.”— Steven Millhauser Related Quotes “Language is the dress of thoughts.”— Samual Jackson “A related notion is that when you really know a language, you think in it. In fact, the brain doesn’t think in any language. What people refer to as “thinking in a language” comes from being able to speak more immediately in a language without rehearsing it or translating it from a language one might know better; the spoken thought feels as if it’s closer to its source in the brain.”— Michael Erard “But language is wine upon his lips”— Virginia Woolf