Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.

Words are powerful, as they influence how we see the world.

I'm pretty good at inventing phrases- you know, the sort of words that suddenly make you jump, almost as though you'd sat on a pin, they seem so new and exciting even though they're about something hypnopaedically obvious. But that doesn't seem enough. It's not enough for the phrases to be good; what you make with them ought to be good too...I feel I could do something much more important. Yes, and more intense, more violent. But what? What is there more important to say? And how can one be violent about the sort of things one's expected to write about? Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly-they'll go through anything. You read them and you're pierced. That's one of the things I try to teach my students-how to write piercingly. But what on earth's the good of being pierced by an article about a Community Sing, or the latest improvement in scent organs? Besides, can you make words really piercing-you know, like the very hardest X-rays when you're writing about that sort of thing? Can you say something about nothing?

But words can conquer words.

It is true that words have power, and one of the things they are able to do is get out of someone’s mouth before the speaker has the chance to stop them.

Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.

With the right words you can change the world.

Como bella flor plena de color y también fragante, las palabras bien dichas dan fruto en aquel que las pone en práctica.

Las palabras forman el hilo con el que tejemos nuestras experiencias. ALDOUS HUXLEY

Words are things. You must be careful, careful about calling people out of their names, using racial pejoratives and sexual pejoratives and all that ignorance. Don’t do that. Some day we’ll be able to measure the power of words. I think they are things. They get on the walls. They get in your wallpaper. They get in your rugs, in your upholstery, and your clothes, and finally in to you.

Las palabras son a las cosas lo que el deseo es al objeto de deseo.

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.

It is astonishing what power words have over men.

Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.