Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure The bastion of sensation. Do not waver Into language. Do not waver in it.
There's a cool web of language winds us in, Retreat from too much joy or too much fear: We grow sea-green at last and coldly die In brininess and volubility.
The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters. ... Obscenity is too valuable a commodity to chuck around all over the place; it should be taken out of the safe on special occasions only.
People enjoy sitting back knowing they won't hear a lot of four-letter words.
I'm never proper or careful, but I never curse in front of my mother, either.
Never use curse words, foul language, or racial slurs, or say anything about a person's appearance. Just work with being smart-mouthed.
I have to admit that I don't even try to speak Russian, though I understand it perfectly. I wouldn't want to insult the language by testing out my pronunciations
We are so used to not having kids around [on Twilight] that we had to really make an effort to try and edit our language.
I suppress in my prose any language which calls attention to itself.
I have sons, and they have never said the word hell in front of me or my wife. That's the truth.
