Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.

If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you.

I seen it over an' over—a guy talkin' to another guy and it don't make no difference if he don't hear or understand. The thing is, they're talkin', or they're settin' still not talkin'. It don't make no difference, no difference. [...] George can tell you screwy things, and it don't matter. It's just the talking. It's just bein' with another guy. That's all.

No pleasure has any savor for me without communication.

It's just certain people that I get the giggles with.

I think I gravitate towards people who express themselves in a simple and funny way.

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.

Much unhappiness comes from walking alone. When there are several, it's somewhat different. I must get into the habit of listening to others, for what the others say concerns me, too.

We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way.

Just sharing things that are either embarrassing or possibly relatable, searching for that laugh so that someone makes me feel less alone. Like, 'Oh, they laughed, so they get what I'm saying.

So, I've got to have food, I've got to have humor. But these things are just the way in to what the show's really about, I think, which is connecting with the people.

If you're listening to music, then the music is your friend; or if you're with a person, then that person can be your friend because you're communicating.

I just like people. I'll hold a conversation at a gas station. It's not about the fame and the fortune, I just like people.

I look for friends who make me laugh.

Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.

Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

At least I had that, one guy understood me.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

If you look at Jack Benny, George Burns, or Don Rickles, they've all had long, successful marriages. So, I think there's something about laughter and the durability of a marriage.

Sitting at home the way I do, I'd just love the hear from people. It'd be a great help in passing the time.

I like being around people.

As regards personal relationships I cannot say that I had any particularly personal intercourse with anyone.

Humor helps people open up.

No one person can possibly combine all the elements supposed to make up what everyone means by friendship.

I could party in a cardboard box with people who are funny and don't care. For me, it's really about who I surround myself with, so I just try to always be with hilarious people.