“I'm apt to get drunk on words...Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being.”

“The best part about being a writer is getting the last word.”

“A curious thing about the ontological problem is its simplicity. It can be put into three Anglo-Saxon monosyllables: 'What is there?' It can be answered, moreover, in a word--'Everything'--and everyone will accept this answer as true.”

“that is not the last word; it is not even an apt word; it is a dead word from ten years back.”

“It is not about reading the Word. It is about obeying the Word.”

“Semantics is about the relation of words to thoughts, but it also about the relation of words to other human concerns. Semantics is about the relation of words to reality—the way that speakers commit themselves to a shared understanding of the truth, and the way their thoughts are anchored to things and situations in the world.”