“Talk to someone about themselves and they'll listen for hours.”
“Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours”
“They [dogs] never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the conversation. ”
“They'll never meet him. They'll never know that its actually possible for a boy to be so boring you'd agree to kiss him just to get him to shut up. I should get paid to listen to him talk when he calls on the phone. I should get a dollar fifty a hour. Minimum.”
“If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.”
“We talked for four hours. Well, I talked for four, and she listened for two. ”