“There’s a linguistic satisfaction to saying fuck. The word has nice consonants. The feeling of curling your lower lip around your lower teeth to make the 'f' sound is a reliably good one. There’s a deeper visceral satisfaction, too. Because the word was so long verboten, because it’s still technical…”— Meghan Daum, medium.com
“I love all words. Words are powerful if you use them well. If you use them badly, they can kill you, too! So be careful.”— Yoko Ono, twitter.com
“...I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight, and other dimensions that I cannot even name.”— Lois McMaster Bujold, amazon.com
“Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men’s actio…”— Sigmund Freud, goodreads.com
“I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.”— Jack Gilbert, amazon.com