"We are still in the toils of language and it is hard to escape."

"My work consists of two parts: the one presented here plus all that I have not written. And it is precisely this second part that is the important one."

"A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably."

"We are struggling with language. We are engaged in a struggle with language."

"The great difficulty is to realize that it is not I who am thinking, but the language which is thinking in me."