Words are precious vessels that carry within them meaning sufficiently stalwart to transform lives and alter the course of nations. And because of the commanding power that is housed within them, I prefer to say one word filled with its meaning than utter a thousand others that I have emptied of their meaning.

Wonder won’t necessarily speak our language, which doesn’t mean that it’s not speaking a language.

Once I have impounded love and towed it into the confine of words, I have lost it altogether.

It’s not saying something that’s been said a million times before. It’s saying something that’s been said in a way that’s feels as if it was missed a million times before.