"Speaking is a beautiful folly; with that..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange.”

“At the beginning of a marriage ask yourself whether this woman will be interesting to talk to from now until old age. Everything else in marriage is transitory: most of the time is spent in conversation.”

“one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.”

“Glen Cove. [Referring to Glenn Close on a movie review television show]”

“There is nothing at all that can be talked about adequately, and the whole art of poetry is to say what can't be said.”

“I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science.”

“The virtuous will be sure to speak uprightly; but those whose speech is upright may not be virtuous.”

“Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.”

“Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.”