“Words are the source of all power. And names are more than just a collection of letters.”

“As someone who grew up in the Bronx, I certainly learned my share of four-letter words, but none are more powerful than nice.”

“More and more I feel like a letter—deposited here, collected there. But a letter addressed to no one.”

“It is no secret. All power is one in source and end, I think. Years and distances, stars and candles, water and wind and wizardry, the craft in a man's hand and the wisdom in a tree's root: they all arise together. My name, and yours, and the true name of the sun, or a spring of water, or an unborn child, all are syllables of the great word that is very slowly spoken by the shining of the stars. There is no other power. No other name.”

“Sometimes words are more powerful than guns. And sometimes silence is more powerful than words. It is the things that are not said that are important.”

“Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.”