Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.
Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; Lovers' talk is clouds, table talk is smoke.
Sometimes the most important conversations are the most difficult to engage in.
It's always a long goddamn story. Every time you ask anyone anything really important, it's a long story.
When I start asking my friends, "What do you think this means?" And it leads to way more interesting conversations than what it actually ends up meaning in the dictionary. Like "apocryphal," for instance.
There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things.
The purpose of the Seder to my mind is to inspire conversations with your family about the human drama and hopefully transmit values to the next generation. I've always felt like this could be better.
Table talk, to be perfect, should be sincere without bigotry, differing without discord, sometimes grave, always agreeable, touching on deep points, dwelling most on seasonable ones, and letting everybody speak and be heard.
I hate having to do small talk. I'd rather talk about deep subjects. I'd rather talk about meditation, or the world, or the trees or animals, than small, inane, you know, banter.
I just feel like the most important conversations I've had in my life have been at a diner counter.
Business is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation - literally. And 'knowledge workers' are simply those people whose job consists of having interesting conversations.
A man of sense and education should meet a suitable companion in a wife. It is a miserable thing when the conversation can only be such as whether the mutton should be boiled or roasted, and probably a dispute about that.
'SoulPancake' is a website that I founded with a couple of friends, and it is for exploring life's big questions.
A great thing is a great book; but a greater thing than all is the talk of a great man.
I'm much more interested in what an actor has to say about something substantial and important than who they're dating or what clothes they're wearing or some other asinine, insignificant aspect of their life.
Once we got to know each other, we had such similar impulses. We saw in a similar way, and we developed a strong friendship. We would talk on the phone for hours, philosophically and theologically, about all of these issues.
I'm trying to elevate small-talk to medium talk.
I can promise you books and conversation and all my heart.
