“Forelsket: The indescribable euphoria experienced as you begin to fall in love.”— Norwegian Saying, amazon.com
“If you scream in fake German for 30 seconds, at least one of those made up words will be the name of a German pastry.”— Conan O'Brien, twitter.com
“As humans, we waste the shit out of our words. It’s sad. We use words like ‘awesome’ and ‘wonderful’ like they’re candy. It was awesome? Really? It inspired awe? It was wonderful? Are you serious? It was full of wonder? You use the word ‘amazing’ to describe a goddamn sandwich at Wendy’s. What’s goi…”— Louis CK, esquire.co.uk
“Language, like people, can be perpetually in flux. That words are, in a sense, bodies moving from one space to another. Our very cells, too, are always moving. They are just overflowing, and dying, and being reborn. What is seemingly so static is actually constantly in motion.”— Ocean Vuong, thatslovelydarling.tumblr.com
“The language of God is not English or Latin; the language of God is cellular and molecular.”— Timothy Leary, en.wikiquote.org
“You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.”— John Green, Peter Van Houten, amazon.com
“It was really the DMT that empowered my commitment to the psychedelic experience. DMT was so much more powerful, so much more alien, raising all kinds of issues about what is reality, what is language, what is the self, what is three-dimensional space and time, all the questions I became involved wi…”— Terence McKenna, amazon.com
“For me, words that you can’t understand in a book aren’t there to torture or remind people that they don’t know. I always felt they were to remind people that part of the experience of reading has always been collective. You learn to read with someone else…Reading is a collective enterprise.”— Junot Dìaz, youtube.com
“Language does not arise from a need to escape but from a desire to enter, not from frowns of impotence but from a surplus of vitality and wonder.”— Robert Pogue Harrison, amazon.com
“But language is a treacherous thing, a most unsure vehicle, and it can seldom arrange descriptive words in such a way that they will not inflate the facts-by help of the readers imagination, which is always ready to take a hand, and work for nothing, and do the bulk of it at that.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“Nothing is inevitable in history, media, or culture — but literacy is the only thing that's even close. Bet for better video, bet for better speech, bet for better things we can't imagine — but if you bet against text, you will lose.”— Tim Carmody, kottke.org
“Do not weep but once, and a long time then Thereafter eat till your stomach spills over No more! you’ll cry too full for your eyes to leak * The words will wait”— Kevin Young, amazon.com
“Flynt’s revenge through language conceived more than two decades earlier would seem to remain in force, thereby suggesting that absence of meaning may also point the way to revolt.”— Robert C. Morgan, whitehotmagazine.com
“Beware of the treacheries of language. Stereotyped political language generally says the opposite of what it is thinking.”— Jean Baudrillard, amazon.com