I think that, of the very few and far in-between things that I am naturally interested in, words might be my favorite, right after space. Ever since I was little I have always like dissecting them, watching them change as they were placed next to others, tasting them and sounding them out phonetically. When on paper, they can also evolve into more of a drawing than a simple arrangement of letters, a sort of art form all own their own. You can't read a painting like you can read a delicately written word, and the style in which you draw it can affect the viewer. Paintings and drawings is a way of expressing oneself, but sometimes a single word on paper will suffice.
Even certain singular letters can be awesome all by themselves. "M" is like a huge hug, and words that begin with M somehow seem to have a softer sound or a more elegant edge. Letters like "J" and "G" are great because they're constantly a mystery, fluctuating as more letters are placed at their sides. "W" is another strange and mysterious letter that always produces full words that either taste wonderful or terrible, without any in-betweens. "P" has almost a happy snap to it, and words like "Jupiter", which combines a J and a P, can either sound very poppy or very eerie, depending on how you read it. Jupiter also has that "I", the sort of B-list celebrity of the alphabet that can replace others if necessary.
I don't "study" this stuff really, I'm not a professional (like anyone would assume that from the way I talk about this shit? ha) it's just a sort of thing that I've become accustomed to doing with words over time. I just like to take them apart, re-arrange them, and study them, much like some people do with car engines.
English is such a terribly complex language. :[