“There's no use talking about the problem unless you talk about the solution.”

“But oh, how wonderful, he thought, if everything you talked about could come true!”

“When all else fails, take a vacation.”

“He talked about democracy and good citizenship and about a good world where everyone did the best he could for the common good of all.”

“It seemed strange that someone as old as Aunt Sylvia would talk about growing up. In a way I'm not sure i like the idea that you always keep on doing it. It seems sort of tiring. And then, people don't automatically do it right.”

“Sometimes I talk about baseball just to annoy people who don’t understand it.”

“My dad had once told me, crimson-red deep in “the talk,” that with sons, all he had to worry about was one penis, but with a daughter, he had to worry about everyone else’s.”