“The only use she has for the word fun is to make the word funeral.”

“I put the fun in funeral.”

“It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?”

“Let's put the fun back in funeral!”

“Don't use such strong words. It'll only make you look weak.”

“What an incitation to hilarity, hearing the word goal while following a funeral procession!”

“Perhaps the most insidious and least understood form of segregation is that of the word. […] For if the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison and destroy.”

“She was a soprano of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral.”

“She knew words no one had ever heard of, and she used words every day that had been mainly dead or sleeping for hundreds of years.”

“We must never say, even in fun, that we are disheartened, because someone might take us at our word.”