It’s kind of give-and-take. You have to sense the people you’re talking to. You have to respond to what they hear.

Everybody knows that really intimate conversation is only possible between two or three. As soon as there are six or seven, collective language begins to dominate.

∆ Simone Weil

the world changes when you lead with statement and then follow-up with explanation

“A conclusion of that same era was that language is alive. I experienced this very concretely on acid. English as an animal, a kind of amoeba, extending its pseudopodia of description into every nook and cranny of reality, a kind of syntactical Los Angeles, ever growing, expanding and including more and more empty or natural territory into its grid of meaning.” — Terence McKenna, Orfeo: A Dialog Between Robert Hunter and Terence McKenna

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

“Language is very powerful. Language does not just describe reality. Language creates the reality it describes.” – Desmond Tutu