An individual cannot be considered entirely sane of he is wholly ignorant of scientific method and structure of nature and so retains primitive semantic reactions.

If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone.

The map is not the territory.

Man's achievements rest upon the use of symbols.... we must consider ourselves as a symbolic, semantic class of life, and those who rule the symbols, rule us.

To use words to sense reality is like going with a lamp to search for darkness.

There are two ways to slice easily thorugh life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

Words don't mean, people mean.

The map is not the territory... The only usefulness of a map depends on similarity of structure between the empirical world and the map.

Who rules our symbols, rules us.

A person does what he does because he sees the world as he sees it.

If a psychiatric and scientific inquiry were to be made upon our rulers, mankind would be appalled at the disclosures.

Impatient men are generous ones. Or haven't you learned that by now?

When you find yourself on stage singing and you are embarrassed about what you are singing in front of your peers, then you have to think about your priorities.

I bathe in basslines, rinse in riffs, dry in drums

Better to work and fail than to sleep one's life away.

If camping is so great, why are the bugs always trying to get in your house?

I let the music set the tone of the lyrics.I allowed myself to write more about relationships and emotions, in a girly way almost.

Architectural and product designs have a narrative capacity - you can start to tell a story about them and imagine a lot of things.

there is nothing sorer to the spirit than falling below what one's lover thinks of one.

The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more strictly and heavily and cruelly images of female beauty have come to weigh upon them.

When I was about 3, my grandfather used to give me and my sister a nickel to sit out on the front porch with him and sing songs.