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I realised quite early that by the time I articulate my thoughts into words, I'm on to another thought. And what comes out wasn't what I thought of exactly. So not talking was a better option.

Words are a pretty blunt instrument. There's always going to be slippage between the words and the infinite complexities of a thought. As a writer, I find that frustrating, but as a social animal, I wouldn't have it any other way.

So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.

I always mean what I say, but I don't always say what I'm thinking.

One of the things that writing and speech can do is express what we're thinking one thought at a time.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

I generally try to think of what it is I want to express and then find a way of expressing it.

I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.