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Words are much better at relating emotions and thoughts.

Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

Words are but pictures of our thoughts.

It shows the truth - that the real meaning of a word is only as powerful or harmless as the emotion behind it.

I think that a lot of us, whether we are religious or not - there are no words to express some things except religious words. For instance, 'soul.'

Words should have the power to inform and to move, not the power to send people scurrying away. But if you attach that much emotional energy to a word, it gives people the power to hurt each other.

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.

If words don't have vibration behind them, and a real feeling behind them, then they're just words.

When I was a young person I went to the university and I learned a rational language, to think with the left side of the brain. But in the right side of the brain you have intuition and imagination. Words are not the truth; they indicate the way to go, but you need to go alone, in silence. Symbols have a language that kills the words.