“I know how to give the meaning of a word but not how to give the intention of a word.”

“But if you say: "How am I to know what he means, when I see nothing but the signs he gives?" then I say: "How is he to know what he means, when he has nothing but the signs either?"”

“Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.”

“I don't even know how this word came into being: "aerobics."”

“The next time you try to seduce anyone, don't do it with talk, with words. Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.”

“How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!”

“How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean.”

“When a word is used to provoke hatred, it does not matter what the word actually means. What matters is only what the haters insist it means - the meaning they give it, the common prejudices they exploit.”

“The funny thing about mundies is how obsessed with magic they are for a bunch of people who don't even know what the word means.”

“Words, how little they mean when you're a little too late.”