“Conversations in the flesh are the first drafts toward the later conversations of the mind, where words and ideas are sorted and elaborated, recast.”
“Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.”
“Not to discuss with a man worthy of conversation is to waste the man. To discuss with a man not worthy of conversation is to waste words. The wise waste neither men nor words.”
“Surely only boring people went in for conversations consisting of questions and answers. The art of true conversation consisted in the play of minds.”
“I needed reassurance from the doubts that were beginning to surface in my mind since I'd first given voice to them in conversation with Amy.”
“The basic dynamics of conversion are summed up for me in the words LEAVE-ARRIVE, END-BEGIN, SHED-EMERGE. These are the tensions of conversion and spiritual awakening.”