Still...

All feats of verbal communication considered... I still prefer touch. Spoken language is too accessible; it's too easily entered by external influences. I have come to understand that, beyond a certain point, the highest levels of profound interpersonal honesty require a type of more intimate privacy than verbal exchanges can accommodate. Millions of people share most spoken languages. That context is always attached to it.

When an idea of great importance needs conveying... fingers, lips, eyes, breath, the space between two bodies: these are the most effective tools for communicating, and perhaps the only comprehensive ones. 

Even Switters had a similar thought:

"In a reality made of language, the people who get to name things have psychological ownership of those things. Couples name their pets and children, Madison Avenue names the products that dominate our desires, theologians name the deities that dominate our spirit—'Yahweh' changed to 'Jehovah' changed to plain ol' generic 'God'—kids name the latest cultural trends or rename old ones to make them theirs; politicians name streets and schools and airports after one another or after the enemies they've successfully eliminated: they took Martin Luther King's life, for example, and then by naming their pork barrel projects after him, took possession of his memory. In a way, we're like linguistic wolves, lifting our legs on patches of cultural ground to mark them with verbal urine as territory that we alone control. Or maybe not."