“I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.”

“We're talking about the novel, right? But maybe we're not. We're talking about ourselves. And I guess that's what can start to happen when you talk about a book.”

“You see, this happened a few months ago, but it's still going on right now, and it ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.”

“When we talked, I talked about me, you talked about you, when we should have talked about each other.”

“I don’t care if we talk about absolutely nothing, I just want to talk to you.”

“I'm not saying it's a bad idea, I'm not saying it's a great idea. I just want to talk about this…I'm not going to pocket it; we're going to talk about it.”

“If we will repeatedly suffer the humiliation of admitting that we really do not know what we're talking about, eventually we will.”

“When we talk about justice in America we're really talking about justice brought about by the people, not by judges who are tools of the establishment or prosecutors who are equally tools of the establishment or the wardens or the police officers.”

“There's nothing much I can tell you about this war. It's like all wars, I suppose. The undertakers are winning it. Oh, the politicians will talk a lot about the "glory" of it, and the old men'll talk about the "need" of it—the soldiers, they just want to go home.”

“But I'm a mainstreamer. I think that, you know, when we start talking about the Tea Party, people want to marginalize that into some kind of organization or party, but it really isn't.”