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A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back to archetypes and their stories.

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

Words have meaning. And their meaning doesn't change.

Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.

We became somewhat household names really quickly, within a matter of - what? - three, four months. So it's hard to get used to, and it's really sometimes hard to understand.

The only thing that would change would be the year, the names. It just got to be a repetitious life.

My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.

Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.

When you have a different name, people just kind of take the liberty to spell it how they want.

You could have names like Hatred; you could have names that mean something like Suffering or Poverty. So names are not just names: names have real meaning, and they tend to tell the world about the circumstances of your parents at the time that you were born.