ALL words are made-up: Do you think we find them fully formed on the ocean floor, or mine from them in some remote part of Wales?

I think when dictionaries define words, there's a sort of hair-splitting that to most people doesn't make any sense, which is we're not describing what a thing is.

Lexicographers may be nerds who don't like human contact, but we're still people.

Whenever you try and simplify how people speak, it's just hard to squish them into a simple rule. Language doesn't work that way.

Words have always been political, and that means that, in many people's minds, dictionaries are political. Because that's what dictionaries do: they do words.

We want to emulate the educated class, even if we don't think of educated people as a class these days.

Monsters that live under children's beds have power only because of the child's ignorance. Thus the nonexistent becomes efficacious.

I don't want to drain what little energy I have on hate, on envy, on blame. I'll need every last drop to better myself, so I can make what little impact I can in this world.

The thought that is billed at the price of fear and flattery is as inconsolable as that which is paid for at the price of gold. - On Fear and Thought.

We haven't slept together. But we've napped

Your trousers are on fire. I would have told you, but you so dislike advice.

What comes after the moon? I think you can guess: Mars.

I was almost always true to you.

I think every metropolitan city has its pockets of - that's what makes them great.

Later works are better because it takes a lot of time in architecture to mature. And, it takes a lot of discipline to experience everything that is changing around you.

The Stormy life can be braved Only by the heart's Sunny meditations.