“Funnily enough, it is the subject one dreads talking about at length one ends up talking about at length, often without the slightest provocation.”

“It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.”

“The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.”

“The talked about their messed-up, dysfunctional families, carefully respecting boundaries, never probing too deep in any one sitting. And they always ended up laughing. Even when the subject matter was intense or macabre, Henry’s sick and twisted and often politically incorrect sense of humor was infectious…Gloria laughed more in these first weeks at Oxford then she remembered laughing almost anywhere.”

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

“How often do we talk just to fill up the quiet space? How often do we waste our breath talking about nonsense?”