The image behind this saying is striking in its contradiction: words are weightless, formless things. They have no body, no legs, no physical presence and yet they can travel farther and faster than the truth they distort.

The image behind this saying is striking in its contradiction: words are weightless, formless things. They have no body, no legs, no physical presence and yet they can travel…

A word seems like such a small, weightless thing. You say it, it disappears into the air, and that should be the end of it.