Each time a language dies, another flame goes out, another sound goes silent.

You have to watch your language. People will think you have no fucking class

I’m sorry.’ The two most inadequate words in the English language.

Words themselves are neutral. It's the charge we add to them that matters

Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form.

Looking at what 'foreplay' is, 'sexual intercourse' is a game.

I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

Language has time as its element; all other media have space as their element.

If someone said 'diametrically,' could 'opposed' be far behind?

For many people around the world ethnicity is not a language, it is a religion.

A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they've been in.

Until you are there, you might not understand the language and pains of poverty

You can’t turn a sunset into a string of grunts without losing something.