“Sighs and silences and avoided conversations are just as important as the things you do talk about.”

“I wasn't fooled. He was avoiding looking at me. "There's nothing to talk about."
"I knew you'd say that. Actually, it was a toss-up between that and 'I don't know what you're talking about.'"
Dimitri sighed.”

“But you cannot say anymore that the United States is going to pay for the wall. I am just going to say that we are working it out. Believe it or not, this is the least important thing that we are talking about, but politically this might be the most important talk about.”

“All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important.”

“Silence is a learned practice that requires far more than just not talking. Not talking is not silence; it's just not talking.”

“People who talk about their dreams are actually trying to tell you things about themselves they’d never admit in normal conversation.”

“Nine times out of ten, talking is a way of avoiding doing things.”

“They [dogs] never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the conversation.”

“We're not going to talk about spirituality and religion. Although I will tell you that I have experienced a deathbed conversion. I just bought a Macintosh.”

“We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things…”