One of the hardest things in the world is to convey a meaning accurately from one mind to another.
My bag is approaching something and taking it to another place. Like words-you take a word and by the time you've finished with it, you milk it and you go through the emotion of what it is, what it means there and then.
The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man.
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
Nothing is so indecent that it cannot be said to another person if the proper words are used to convey it.
You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.
Now, what we are not talking about, what you're really coming to, is what compromises one makes so that the listener understands somewhat of what you're doing, what you're trying to express.
I was once told by someone wise that writing is perilous as you cannot always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit in which they were written.
Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world.
For all symbols are fluxional; all language is vehicular and transitive, and is good, as ferries and horses are, for conveyance, not as farms and houses are, for homestead.
Every How is carried by a What.
Ideas are only as good as your ability to communicate them.
a letter ... changes utterly the moment it slips inside an envelope. It stops being mine. It becomes yours. What I mean is gone. What you understand is all that remains.
Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented.
If I can get somewhere, I'm all right. If not, I'm miserable.
