“I'm apt to get drunk on words… Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being.”

“The Biblical words about the genesis of heaven and earth are not words of information but words of appreciation. The story of creation is not a description of how the world came into being but a song about the glory of the world's having come into being.”

“It is not about reading the Word. It is about obeying the Word.”

“The only stupid thing about words is the spelling of them.”

“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."”

“Your questions refer to words; so I have to talk about words.
You say: The point isn't the word, but its meaning, and you think of the meaning as a thing of the same kind as the word, though also different from the word. Here the word, there the meaning.”

“Men substitute words for reality and then argue about the words.”

“Tony the Beat Poet says the words alone, lonely and loneliness are three of the most powerful words in the English language. I agree with Tony. Those words say that we are human; they are like the words hunger and thirst. But they are not words about the body, they are words about the soul.”

“Practice justice in word and deed, and do not get in the habit of acting thoughtlessly about anything.”

“Courts are apt to err by sticking too closely to the words of a law where those words import a policy that goes beyond them.”