“If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn’t write a single word, but that would be tragic.”

“I understand why we do that now. It’s a help, not a threat. It’s something to remind you how important words are. Ideas are important. Principles are important. Words are important. Your word is the most important of all. Your word is who you are.”

“Wouldn’t this old world be better If the folks we meet would say: ‘I know something good about you,’ And then treat us that way?”

“They say marriages work better if you don't know the person too well. Maybe we should stop writing each other posthaste.”

“There is an hour of the afternoon when the plain is on the verge of saying something. It never says, or perhaps it says it infinitely, or perhaps we do not understand it, or we understand it and it is untranslatable as music.”

“In the fifties… we were so busy being cool that we didn’t know how to say the word love”