“Most of the words you know and love and use every day are not words yo...” — Erin McKean Quote

“Most of the words you know and love and use every day are not words you learned by looking them up in a dictionary and reading a definition.”

“Twitter is like overhearing people's conversations, which is exactly what dictionary editors have been wishing we could do for years.”

“Almost any word can be drafted to serve as a verb, even words we think of as eternal and unchanging, stuck in their more traditional roles.”

“I'm interested in illuminating the enormous disparity between vast poverty and the tiny upper class... This vast inequity is unfair by definition, and I am interested in illuminating that and, where possible, changing that.”

“Satire is, by definition, offensive. It is meant to make us feel uncomfortable. It is meant to make us scratch our heads, think, do a double-take, and then think again.”

“What is a Fuhrungsspieler? I don't like the term. For me there is not a clear definition of the term.”