cuneiform

"I find it very bewildering that they started off with the least flexible and the least adaptable system of pictographs and then they moved on to the sound."

"This is a finished thing with a flat surface. You press it down, so you have some contract, you have some building arrangement."

"The truth about translation is that you never really have a word in one language which precisely equates another."

"The big mistake for mankind was the creation of monotheistic religions, because they brought evil into the world."

"I think it’s a literary construction out of the reality that people who did survive were on boats."