expression constraints Quotes

A language is a map of our failures

I think the names of colors are at the edge, between where language fails and where it's at its most powerful.

Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas.

I think that some restriction on speech is appropriate.

Languages that try to disallow idiocy become themselves idiotic.

It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living.

You can never say everything you want to say. I feel I had a fair opportunity to explain a lot of the questions.

No matter what lens you use, no matter what speed the film, no matter how you develop it, no matter how you print it, you cannot say more than you can see.

Words are finite organs of the infinite mind. They cannot cover the dimensions of what is in truth. They break, chop, and impoverish it.

The hardest part of playing the villain was the prosthetics, because I couldn't really move my face as much as I wanted to, and yet I had to move my face a lot. If I moved my face in certain ways the prosthetics would come apart, so I could do a lot of eyebrow acting, but I couldn't do a lot of nose lifting, or the corners of the nose would pop out.

We are like people living in a country whose language they know so little that, with all manner of beautiful and profound things to say, they are condemned to the banalities of the conversation manual. Their brain is seething with ideas, and they can only tell you that the umbrella of the gardener's aunt is in the house.

I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences.