Get a watermelon, draw a face on it, and talk to it before making love to it.

But before she tells you anything.” I glared at him suspiciously.”your seed…”Tsaeb winced.”What the hell are you talking about?””your…well, your seed. You know, you have to knock her up.

Want to play hangman? asks Theophile, and I ache to tell him that I have enough on my plate playing quadriplegic. But my communication system disqualifies repartee: the keenest rapier grows dull and falls flat...

He disliked contradiction, and still more, arguments that were continually skipping from one thing to another, introducing new and disconnected points, so that there was no knowing to which to reply.

Words were few and failing between them as though the silence that sat with them had laid its old lips on theirs and sucked them dry of speech. For where could one begin? With the...

Berg paid his way with stories.

The people who ask questions decide the quality of their conversation.

Sometimes when it looks like I’m deep in thought I’m just trying not to have a conversation with people.

CONVERSATION is the vehicle for change.

He was like a man who had served a term in prison or had been to Harvard College or had left for a long time with foreigners in South America. He was like a person...

How often have I noticed or, indeed, listened to him? We talk, but do I actually listen, or is our conversation mainly a question of my waiting for him to stop and for it to...

We men are fascinated by the things we don’t really understand. It gives us something to think and talk about: like females, they drive us nuts.

He had never imagined so clearly the consequences of mailing a letter–the impossibility of retrieving it from the iron mouth of the box; the inevitability if its steady progress through the postal system; the passing...

I remember my first cell phone number still. I may call it and ask to speak to myself from eight years ago. If they say I have the wrong number I’ll tell them, No, right...

It’s not polite to talk with your mouth full of food.

It comes down to this: If you want to be seen, heard and understood in the most genuine way possible, be open to the possiblity of vulnerability. Allow yourself to be open. I know it’s...

If a conversation is not working, then you need to make a different choice. Stop what you are doing & do something different.

At some point in my early forties I realized that my primary goal in just about any verbal exchange is to lighten the mood.

So you have something important to say, so you interrupt an exciting conversation already in progress just to let us know you have nothing to contribute to the discussion. Umm….

We are prepared to have a conversation with Iran in which we would explain and make clear our concerns about … Iranian activity in Iraq.

Most people he knew, his wife included, wouldn’t make it through an hour on the promise of four sentences. But Frankie Bard was like a camel. She could hold her words for days–as long as...

Every person has something meaningful to say in the conversation of life.

There is conversation that over the next ten years, hedge funds would become like mutual funds, … There is some merit to that conversation, but I think there might be some lag time.

He’s never quite got the trick of conversation, tending to hear in dissenting views, however mild, a kind of affront, an invitation to mortal combat.

The conversation was one-sided. She was doing all the talking, and every time I opened my mouth it wasn’t to reply—it was to yawn.

Madam: Are you lucky, Debora?Debora: What do you mean?Madam: Well, you don’t look that happy today…Debora: Is it that clear?

No, it was nice to finally meet someone whose arrogance isonly rivaled by the arrogance of the gods.

Give me a half hour’s conversation. I will know more than I will reading 20 magazines.

The conversation was more about the message and how to talk about the issues. I think that everyone in that room was committed to us on the issues.

I don’t know what he means by that, but I nod and smile at him. You’d be surprised at how far that response can get you in a conversation where you are completely confused.

Slowly, even though I thought it would never happen, New York lost its charm for me. I remember arriving in the city for the first time, passing with my parents through the First World’s Club...

He seemed like the sort to have a vast arsenal of smirks, shaped over a decade of nonverbal conversation.

The best kind of conversation is that which may be called thinking aloud.

There is nothing more entertaining then leaving someone speechless. Yet, there is nothing sadder than realizing that person was incapable of retaining half of what you said, and will repeat the story all wrong to...

We’re trying to figure out how to monetize these things. It’s definitely a piece of the conversation.

she wasn’t veryinterestingbut few peopleare.

I don’t want clever conversationI never want to work that hard.

I tried telling him without telling him, through body language, and I observed he was unobservant.

My belief is that during conversations, it’s not so much what you say, it’s how you say it that matters. What’s being heard is secondary to what’s being seen, as body language leads the discussion...

I talked to David yesterday, but since it is a statue, it didn’t talk back. I have to say, it was a better conversationalist than my last date.

If your breath smells like coffee, I might try to drink our conversation. Wake me up with the words you’re speaking.

Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It’s the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating with nothing at all.

There is nothing that makes me happier than sitting around the dinner table and talking until the candles are burned down.

[When Jim Nicholson was ambassador to the Holy See last year, he had a memorable conversation with a Polish archbishop, introduced to him as] Secretary of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints. … So...

It only needs a desire, not words; to start a conversation.

If they were all worked out, we’d be having a different conversation today,

Plato worried that philosophical writing would take the place of living conversations for which, in philosophy, there is no substitute.

The middle path makes me wary. . . . But in the middle of my life, I am coming to see the middle path as a walk with wisdom where conversations of complexity can be...

…And tonight—Geryon? You okay?Yes fine, I’m listening. Tonight—?Why do you have your jacket over your head?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Can’t hear...

Where are you?” he asked. “I’m right here” she said. “I know, but it feels like one percent of you is somewhere else, where is that one percent?” he said. “I don’t know….I think I’m...