words Quotes

The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end.

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

They certainly give very strange names to diseases.

I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.