“This is why I don't speak sooner. Other people, they talk, talk, talk until words mean nothing. There is no truth.' He pointed to his chest. 'I keep truth here. Not in other people's ears.'―The Night Butcher”
“Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human”
“Superior people talk about ideas. Mediocre people talk about things. Little people talk about other people.”
“Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep”
“People talk of natural sympathies ; I have heard of good genii ; there are grains of truth in the wildest fable.”
“Do you know what people really want? Everyone, I mean. Everybody in the world is thinking: I wish there was just one other person I could really talk to, who could really understand me, who'd be kind to me. That's what people really want, if they're telling the truth.”