“Every utterance is an event and no two events are precisely alike. The extreme view therefore is that no word ever means the same thing twice.”

“Every utterance is an event and no two events are precisely alike. The extreme view therefore is that no word ever means the same thing twice.”

“All words are pegs to hang ideas on.”

“A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.”

“No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake....”