“The Eskimo has fifty-names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love.”

“If eskimos can come up with fifty words for snow because its a matter of life and death, why do we have just one word for love?”

“I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move against me while you sleep & there are no words for that.”

“The Eskimos have four hundred words for snow, and the Jewshave four hundred for schmuck.”

“The Eskimos may have a hundred words for snow, but at that moment, I only had two: Fuck. Yeah.”

“I tried to think the same thought in as many different religions as possible, so the thought itself wouldn't be limited by any particular way of reasoning, the way words restrict -- the whole eskimo-seventeen-words-for-snow idea.”