“The written word endures, the spoken word disappears”
“The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever.”
“The spoken word is nothing. It hardly lives longer than an insect! Only the written word is eternal. - Balbulus”
“The spoken word vanished with the wind. Likewise, the unrecorded life disappears as if it never existed.”
“The spoken word and the written - there is an astonishing gulf between them. There is a way of turning sentences that completely reverses the meaning.”
“Things spoken can be forgotten and forgiven, but the written word has the power to change the course of history, to alter our lives.”