I collect words--they are sweets in the mouth of sound.

Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by.

There was a language specific to all things. The ability to learn another language in one arena, whether it was music, medicine, or finance, could be used to accelerate learning and other arenas, too.

We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them.

We are losing our common vocabulary, built over thousands of years to help and delight and instruct us, for the sake of what we take to be the new technology's virtues.

A true lady should have the wit and the imagination, or at least the very restraint, to express herself without resorting herself to such base vocabulary.