“I like to be able to open a can of stock and I like to talk about politics, or the movies, at the dinner table sometimes instead of food.”

“Be nice to his family. Pretend not to notice the way their house smells. Pretend to like their food. Mimic their barbaric customs at the dinner table.”

“But I quite like the way you can talk about science without necessarily using mathematics, but using metaphors instead.”

“If it was my business, I wouldn't talk about it. It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbroker's do that, and then merely at dinner parties.”

“Things it is not polite to discuss at the dinner table: politics, religion, and the walking dead.”

“...Sometimes they open it up like a package in the presence of a person they can talk to,' she said. 'Someone they can trust.' She held out her hands. 'Any person who is carrying a lot of sadness,' she said, 'needs to be able to rest sometimes, and to put it down.”