“This divergence of experience was not a stumbling block to conversation; indeed, it was what made the conversation interesting.”

“Together, the two began the kind of conversation that flows seamlessly, unstoppably, each fork begetting another branch of common interest, a conversation that continues until this day.”

“And it did me no good to recall particular conversations (if indeed these were particular conversations I was remembering so vividly, rather than inventions of my uneasy brain). Remembering clarified nothing.”

“Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.”

“A novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed.”

“The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.”