“Words, words. They're all we have to go on.”

“If the word of how they're being treated keeps getting out, we're going to have al-Qaeda people surrendering all over the world trying to get in place.”

“His last words were spoken to a woman, to the nurse who was holding his hand. Perhaps we all have the last words ready when we go into the last room. Perhaps the thing about last words is not how good they are, but whether we can get them out. What Larkin said faintly was, "I'm going to the inevitable."”

“Where do the words go
when we have said them?”

“All the rest of the world uses the word "electricity." They've borrowed the word from English. But we Chinese have our own word for it!”

“It's only words… unless they're true.”

“No more words. We know them all, all the words that should not be said. But you have made my world more perfect.”

“Murder is such a charged word. You know how some people fixate and won't let things go? They're called cops.”

“We don't have to know,
only to be:
let go the jumble of worn words,
reason and vanity.”

“I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go”