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Language is the dress of thought.

People who grow up with two or more languages understand that each can express certain aspects of reality better than the other.

I have a vocabulary in clothing. It's like a whole language.

A different language is a different vision of life.

When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.

I wanted to clearly define my language: a timeless shoe with a little twist.

It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection.

Language is froth on the surface of thought.

Expressing myself through language was always something that I had had to learn to do more so than others.

Language and identity are so fundamentally intertwined. You peel back all the layers in terms of what we wear and what we eat and all the things that mark us, and in the end, what we have are our words.