Word Quotes

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.

I’m running for president because everyday Americans and their families need a champion, and I want to be that champion. I want to make the words middle class mean something again.

I want my words to survive translation.

It must be said that today, at the end of its semantic evolution, the word ‘terrorist’ is an intrinsically propagandistic term. It has no neutral readability. It dispenses with all reasoned examination of political situations, of their causes and consequences.

The truth is, you know, we need our anodynes. You know that word, anodynes? We need that in life some times.

Affordable luxury – these are two words that don’t go together.

I just remember really loving words and writing about anything I could, and the way I’d remember things, like my library card number, was to make a melody.

I’m from a state that houses too many cornfields and a town that no one takes seriously- in a home where glass cuts hurt less than deeply wounded words.

Regarding this Dhamma, it is not something that we can simply talk about or take another’s word for it.

There is admiration, learning, attraction and something which, for the want of a better word, we call happiness.