“Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.”

“Sighs and silences and avoided conversations are just as important as the things you do talk about.”

“Having an energy conversation without talking about climate is like talking about smoking and not talking about cancer.”

“There's something nice about the silence of a car ride in the dark, going home. When you were tired of the radio and conversation, and it was okay to just be alone with your thoughts and the road ahead. If you're that comfortable with someone, you don't have to talk.”

“Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets just like love or liquor.”

“The conversation was mesmerizing, not for its content but for the cadences of the talk, the rhythm we fell into when we were alone, now as before. Every conversation between friends or lovers creates its own easy or awkward rhythms, hidden talk that runs like a subterranean river under even the most banal exchange.”