“A word after a word after a word is power.”
“Words are the most powerful thing in the universe... Words are containers. They contain faith, or fear, and they produce after their kind”
“You will have a story in there. . . or a character, a place, a poem, a moment in time. When you find it, you will write it. Word after word after word after word.”
“After all, she may have thought, do words say everything? Can words say anything? Do not words destroy the symbol that lies beyond the reach of words?”
“Home after midnight from a debate on the wording of a minor municipal bylaw on bottle recycling, he felt like he was a pin in the hinge of power.”
“The hard part is putting one word after another.”