“Hope is a verb with its shirtsleeves rolled up.”

“The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when it's all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's just what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it away over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German.from "Disappearance of Literature”

“Writing can be described in two verbs: Throw up and clean up.”

“Ian Kabra rolled up his window. "My god, what's that smell?"Behind the wheel, Sinead laughed. "It's called fresh air. Growing up in London, you've probably never breathed it before.""And I hope I never breathe it again.”

“Nouns and verbs are the guts of the language. Beware of covering up with adjectives and adverbs.”

“Mother is a verb. It's something you do. Not just who you are.”