“Bethyl Ann has vomited words like she ate the dictionary.”

“Your friend's poetry is terrible," he said.Clary blinked, caught momentarily off guard. "What?""I said his poetry was terrible. It sounds like he ate a dictionary and started vomiting up words at random.”

“I don't know. Sometimes I try to say what's on my mind and it comes out sounding like I ate a dictionary and I'm shitting pages. Sorry”

“Cynicism has all the smart words on it's side; idealism uses a nursery school dictionary.”

“Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use.The mere presence in the dictionary of a word like 'living' does not mean it necessarily has to refer to something definite in the real world.”

“He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."(on Ernest Hemingway”