It is widely known that the power of words is immense, but I've recently came across an interesting quotation which made me think about words in a rather different way.
"This is something that has concerned me most of my sexual life-which began late, I must announce to this select company. In the same way the sexual pleasure of conversation came to me only after I was married. I had never thought words erotic. Sometimes I really do like to talk more than fuck. Sentences. Buckets of this buckets of that and then buckets of this again. The trouble with words is that you can really talk yourself into a corner. Whereas you can't fuck yourself into a corner."
Caravaggio
"The English Patient"
Michael Ondaatje
