Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before.
Inspiration should not only end in words; action is required if you desire a brighter future.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.
Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter.
Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.
I think that there is incredible prejudice about witches while there is no prejudice about wizards. Words are very important, and I'm really into destroying myths.
I have an intense dislike of doctrines, because you will always end up eating your words.
I feel like every word I say now, I can really inspire people.
I hadn't been in Vegas 20 minutes when I got word that the bookmakers were offering three to one that Frank wouldn't show for my wedding.
I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.
Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as if it's a pleasure.
I've a problem with the word charity because I think that NGOs, as I prefer calling them, really do take the work of moral and social responsibilities that ought to be taken on by governments.
I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it's words on the page and therefore it is something to work with.
The worst sin that can be committed against the artist is to take him at his word, to see in his work a fulfillment instead of an horizon.
The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
On one day of the week, I relax - which is not true, I work furiously on other things. 'Relax' is not a word to me.
We work with every one of them to see if their character wouldn't say a certain thing or if something is worded awkwardly - we work with them to rectify that.
Some comics really thrive on being disrespectful, especially toward women, and it's somehow understood as edgy, but I'm the opposite. I've never liked curse words for that reason.
For women in, say, Alabama, 'feminism' is a dirty word. They would never march in the streets. But although they don't think of themselves as the beneficiaries of feminism, they are.
We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
