“Words have a force far beyond that of ink stains on pages or spoken sounds... Whether written or spoken, language found in forbidden books can warp space-time and tear the fabric of reality.”
“The written word endures, the spoken word disappears”
“In the speech sound wave, one word runs into the next seamlessly; there are no little silences between spoken words the way there are white spaces between written words. We simply hallucinate word boundaries when we reach the end of a stretch of sound that matches some entry in our mental dictionary.”
“Books are love letters (or apologies) passed between us, adding a layer of conversation beyond our spoken words.”
“All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer. ”
“Hear this if you can:If you want to reach himYou have to go beyond yourselfAnd when you finally arrive at the land of absenceBe silentDon’t say a thingEcstasy, not words, is the language spoken there”