It was surprisingly touching. It's more real than words on a page.

You can only fit so many words in a postcard, only so many in a phone call, only so many into space before you forget that words are sometimes used for things other than filling emptiness.

Words have power, power we fail to recognize time and time again. Both spoken words and written words have an impact that can last forever. That's why I'm a writer.

That was the hard thing about grief, and the grieving. They spoke another language, and the words we knew always fell short of what we wanted them to say.

A picture is worth a thousand words. A satellite image is worth a million dollars.

The Eskimos have hundreds of word for snow but we've invented three times that many words for relationships. What really defines a relationship?