If you work on something a little bit every day, you end up with something that is massive.
Kenneth GoldsmithLanguage is material to shape and mold, not only a transparent or invisible medium for communication, business contracts, or telling stories.
Kenneth GoldsmithAnd I think this is the real epiphany: the ways in which culture is distributed become profoundly more intriguing as a cultural artifact itself. What we've experienced is an inversion of consumption, one in which we've come to prefer the acts of acquisition over that which we are acquiring, the bottles over the wine.
Kenneth GoldsmithThe moment we shake our addiction to narrative and give up our strong-headed intent that language must say something "meaningful," we open ourselves up to different types of linguistic experience, which could include sorting and structuring words in unconventional ways: by constraint, by sound, by the way words look, and so forth, rather than always feeling the need to coerce them toward meaning.
Kenneth Goldsmith