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Words are a pretty blunt instrument. There's always going to be slippage between the words and the infinite complexities of a thought. As a writer, I find that frustrating, but as a social animal, I wouldn't have it any other way.

One of the things that writing and speech can do is express what we're thinking one thought at a time.

To say it another way, thinking, however abstract, originates in an embodied subjectivity, at once overdetermined and permeable to contingent events.

Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.

To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception.

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.

I generally try to think of what it is I want to express and then find a way of expressing it.

Language is always burdened by thought.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.