Chuck Palahniuk Quotes

Talk about yourself as much as you like, but do not expect others to listen.

If I were to name my favorite pastime, I'd have to say talking about myself. I love it and I think most other people do too. We need, people like us, more listeners and less talkers.

Let me tell you what I just heard. Talk, talk, talk, I. Talk, talk, talk, I. Well, what about me?

The extreme pleasure we take in speaking of ourselves should make us apprehensive that it gives hardly any to those who listen to us.

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.

The essence of conversation is not which media format we choose to talk to each other with, so we don't differentiate between snaps and chats. It's just someone wanting to talk to you.

For years I used to bore my wife over lunch with stories about funny incidents.

People are human beings. They talk about stuff, they make mistakes, they try to impress each other with their tidbits.

Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations.

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

The best thing I could say is you do have to be a really good listener. If I go to a family reunion, and there's 400 people there, everybody comes up and tells me their stories, right? And I think that when you're a good listener, and you can imagine how someone's talking, dialogue is your key friend, is it not?

Talking to people is not giving them anything.

Each bird loves to hear himself sing.

People love to talk about themselves.

Conversation is the most human and humanizing thing that we do.

People talk to pass the time, share information, and entertain each other.

Nothing trumps good conversation.

We have all had the experience at some point in our lives of sitting across from someone whose favorite subject is themselves. This is true of nearly everyone to some respect - but for some people, it is a particularly acute problem.

Life would be boring without gossip.

I spend most of my life just listening to people.

We are more anxious to speak than to be heard.

Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot

Sometimes I think the human animal doesn't really need food or water to survive, only gossip.

It's much more important to be interested than to be interesting.

Heaven: A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you expound on yours.