City of Glass (y II)

When things were whole, we were confident that our words could express them. But little by little these things have broken apart, shattered, collapsed into chaos. And yet our words have remained the same. Hence, every time we try to speak of what we see, we speak falsely, distorting the very thing we are trying to represent.

But words, as you yourself know, are capable of change.

Paul Auster City of glass in The new york trilogy, Faber and Faber Limited, London, 1987, p. 77.