“Talking to oneself, I have often thought, is the best way to be sure of intelligent and witty conversation.”
“You're never alone when you're a schizophrenic. — Of course I talk to myself, I often find that it's the only way to have an intelligent conversation”
“Surely she had endured enough for one evening without having to listen to intelligent conversation?”
“The best way to know someone is to have a conversation with them.”
“She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.”
“By the time the shade had reached the river, Augustus would have mellowed with the evening and be ready for some intelligent conversation, which usually involved talking to himself.”