“The spoken word vanished with the wind. Likewise, the unrecorded life disappears as if it never existed.”

“The written word endures, the spoken word disappears”

“The rising and falling cadence of words, carried on the wind, spoken in a language other than human.”

“I don't know anything!' Tim(Caleb) wailed.He'd never spoken a truer word in his life.”

“Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us. If we were no longer here, words would lose their whole function. They would end up as words that are never spoken, and words that aren't spoken are no longer words.”

“Oh, he was just angry, we tell ourselves when someone blurts out something he later apologizes for. But a word, once spoken, lingers forever; to keep peace we pretend to forget, but we never do. Strange that a spoken word can have such lasting power when words carved on stone monuments vanish in spite of all our efforts to preserve them. What we would lose persists, lodged in our minds, and what we would keep is lost to water, moths, moss.”