The psycholinguist Steven Pinker once wrote that he has “never met a person who is not interested in language.” That universal fascination with words and language is the spirit that pervades Paul McFedries’ book Quote, Words, Unquote. Using more than 1,200 quotations from more than 800 authors, the book illuminates nearly every aspect of language: neologisms and names; puns and proverbs; truth and lies; speaking and silence. The French priest and poet Joseph Roux said that “a fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit.” Consider Quote, Words, Unquote to be your personal collection of linguistic diamonds.