"The paradox inherent in language is that it is at one and the same time deeply personal and conentional. It must serve equally the needs of both individual and group. There cannot be an exclusively private language; neither can there be an entirely public one."
"In our condition as speaking beings--powerful, vulnerable; enlightened, confused; connected, alone--we negotiate a fine line, a dotted line, between the healthy anonymity of convention and the need for individuation"