I searched for something to say, since you always have to fall back on words to prevent silence from speaking too loudly..

There is some relationship between the hunger for truth and the search for the right words. This struggle may be ultimately indefinable and even undecidable, but one damn well knows it when one sees it.

These days I just can't seem to say what I mean [...]. I just can't. Every time I try to say something, it misses the point. Either that or I end up saying the opposite of what I mean. The more I try to get it right the more mixed up it gets. Sometimes I can't even remember what I was trying to say in the first place. It's like my body's split in two and one of me is chasing the other me around a big pillar. We're running circles around it. The other me has the right words, but I can never catch her.

Words', he said, 'is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life. So you must simply try to be patient and stop squibbling. As I am telling you before, I know exactly what words I am wanting to say, but somehow or other they is always getting squiff-squiddled around.

Friend, when you speak this carefully I know it is because you don't know what to say.

We are struggling with language.
We are engaged in a struggle with language.

You’ll know what to say when the time comes. That’s the art, eh? What to say, and when to say it. And the rest is silence.

I gotta use words to talk to you.

Words matter, especially in the current environment where tensions are running high. I think it's incumbent on all of us to choose them carefully.

Now I found it in writing sentences. You can write that sentence in a way that you would have written it last year. Or you can write it in the way of the exquisite nuance that is sriting in your mind now. But that takes a lot of ... waiting for the right word to come.

I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

Words can be very powerful. I find them very difficult.