We’re distant cousins. He’s my first cousin, but he’s 5,000 miles away. And he doesn’t talk much.

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

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

How often have the greatest thoughts and ideas come to light during conversations with the family over the evening dinner?

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

A good conversation always involves a certain amount of complaining. I like to bond over mutual hatreds and petty grievances.

Turn the fan off when I’m talking. It not only makes my words colder, but it distorts and dilutes what I’m saying.

Do you ever lose the ego?” Westford asks me.“Yeah.” When his daughter kisses me, my ego flies out the window.

what a sad pair we are," she said. "Surely we can manage a conversation on a topic other than our respective terrible evenings.

It’s hard to hear over the racket of gunfire. Politicians want to talk about war, but the people want to talk about peace.

There was no necessity for either to have the last word. For the first word became the only word of their romantic conversation.

Weird people don't care if they're weird. They are the most entertaining to converse with because nothing is off-limits.

After I speak, my words merge with the wind, and if you’re listening, your ears act like sails and carry the conversation.

Every friend was once a stranger and if you know this, you have to understand that conversations are the beginning of connection

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