“No is a bigger word than I.”

“I am stronger than words and I am bigger than the box I'm in, and then I see her in the crowd and I fall apart.”

“I’m not as intellectual as my daughter. She says bigger words than I … I don’t even know what they mean… But she’s so amusing to me and it’s wonderful to be around her.”

“We weren't managed from the word go, like U2 or Simple Minds, to get bigger and bigger and take over the planet.”

“I want a brighter word than bright”

“I like words more than numbers, and I always did.”

“I was, however, more interested in steam engines than in electric ones. In other words, I was more romantic than technical.”

“I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and other dimensions that I cannot even name.”

“It is easier not to speak a word at all than to speak more words than we should.”

“Thou are a better counsellor to others
Than to thyself: I judge by deeds not words.”