No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn't understand, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language.

Contrary to what phenomenology—which is always phenomenology of perception—has tried to make us believe, contrary to what our desire cannot fail to be tempted into believing, the thing itself always escapes.

Visual art is a foreign language I'm fluent at, but my native language is language.

Playing golf is like learning a foreign language.

As soon as there is language, generality has entered the scene.

Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English.