Pinning Things Down

Nobody will agree, there is no such thing as an agreed value Shakespeare. This is not because Shakespeare is less precise than a mathematical equation it is because he is unfixed. Language is movement, and I do not only mean inevitable development or deterioration, I mean that words are fleet-footed things and when right run, escape us at the place where we think we have wrestled them flat.

- Jeanette Winterson, "A Work of My Own" pg 166, Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effontery.