“Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.”

“It takes the human voice to infuse them with the shades of deeper meaning.”

“Men of the world who value the Way all turn to books. But books are nothing more than words. Words have value; what is of value in words is meaning. Meaning has something it is pursuing, but the thing that it is pursuing cannot be put into words and handed down. The world values words and hands down books but, though the world values them, I do not think them worth valuing. What the world takes to be values is not real value.”

“The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.”

“Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.”

“There's something about seeing a guy's feelings written down, something about him taking that risk and committing that heart to paper, that means so much more than anything he could just say.”