Daniel Handler Quotes

I think for love to work you have to be with someone who you want to talk to before going to bed at night.

If you are sitting on the couch with the TV off, and you are looking into each other's eyes and talking, that is quality time - so is taking a walk or going out to eat, so long as you are communicating with each other.

After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.

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.

Relationships are hard. You're lucky if you find someone.

I think romance is friendship and attraction sort of meeting together and that does influence what I'm writing a lot. I try to establish the attraction, obviously, but I also think it's important to show the characters having actual conversations about things other than their feelings for each other - and to develop their friendship on the page.

You have to be able to carry a conversation. I think after the initial attraction kind of dies down. The lust dies down. There has to be the thing that engages you.

Talking about relationships is a surefire way to jinx them.

Always do something that requires you and your date to talk.

Sometimes it is a great joy just to listen to someone we love talking.

There is no other person on the face of this planet that I would rather sit and talk to than my wife.

Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.

I have a horror of boring someone or, worse still, of someone boring me. I said to my mother when I was seven, 'But, Mums, if it was only my husband and me in the house together, what would we talk about?' I've never wanted to answer my own question, and doubt I'll bother now.

It makes you feel at home when you can talk to somebody and really talk about anything.

You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together.

We want to encourage people to talk to one another.

My world is not spectacle and explosion. It's two people talking.

Nothing trumps good conversation.

I don't think you really get to know a person until you talk to them.

I do like to laugh at and talk about relationships.

I still speak with David Silva. We have a personal relationship, and we talk about personal things, but we've not got into football that much.

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

... talk, not sex, constitutes most of the intercourse between a man and his wife.

Girl talk. That thing I've always been so bad at.

The reason why lovers are never bored together is that they are always talking of themselves.