“All is not at an end on earth since we can still talk nonsense.”

“Nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God.”

“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”

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

“Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have her nonsense respected.”

“... you think I am attacking them for talking nonsense? Not a bit! I like them to talk nonsense. That's man's one privilege over all creation. Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen. And a fine thing too, in its way; but we can't even make mistakes on our own account! Talk nonsense, but talk your own nonsense, and I'll kiss you for it. To go wrong in one's way is better than to go right in someone else's.”