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The difficulty that many foreign authors face in having their works translated into English has effects far beyond the United States.

I feel that there are a few things in the world without cultural barriers.

I realized very early in life what my abilities and limitations were, and foreign languages was definitely one of my limitations. With strenuous effort, I just barely passed my French class at Harvard so I could graduate.

Human language... prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

We use so much bad language that it forms a barrier between ourselves and the truth.

Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around.

Language is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good deal about that.

I feel that as the world becomes more and more multicultural, it's a good tool to be able to speak another language.