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If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.

I think kids are excited by language, and they're not always given credit for that.

You couldn't have human society without language.

Indeed, children thrown together in a community that doesn't have a language of its own will invent one in order to communicate with each other.

For decades, there has been this assumption that children played and adults didn't. That's rubbish.

When I was a little boy, there was no sound in the movies.

Language is always evolving. It's difficult to read Shakespeare now because language has shifted. Similarly, kids these days can get to the point really quick in about 140 characters or less because of these new tools.

I didn't play with other children.

I don't remember consciously not being able to play an instrument. It's been kind of like a language for me.

But those two plays left me on fresh terms with language. I didn't always have to speak in my own voice.