Word Quotes

Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

You know what Andy Warhol’s sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell’s Soup a household word.

He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.

And that we can deflect words by trivialization, of course, but also by ritualized respect, or we can let them enter our souls and mix with the juices of our minds.

I love it. The way you listen to my silence and find the words lost in impatience.

The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.

Where God tears great gaps we should not try to fill them with human words.

I am a slow reader. I always loved words, which is a strange thing given that I couldn’t actually read them.

All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on in their minds are pigs.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.