“The impersonality of the written word made it the easiest means of exchange...”
“Exchange the words 'have to' with 'get to.' Exchange the word 'can't' with 'unwilling.”
“I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.”
“I would exchange all that I have written for the next thing.”
“The only word in the Martian language is written phonetically: Kay-ray-kh-kuh-ko-kex.It means whatever you want it to mean.”
“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.”