“We talked about nothing in particular, but it felt like we were talking about the most important things…”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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2010s, 2016, January

“Necessity resides in the way we talk about things, not in the things we talk about.”
Ways of Paradox and Other Essays (1976), p. 174
1970s

Rejoinder when told that he couldn't talk about physics, because "nobody [at this table] knows anything about it."
Part 5: "The World of One Physicist", "Alfred Nobel's Other Mistake", p. 310.
Quoted in Handbook of Economic Growth (2005) by Philippe Aghion and Steven N. Durlauf.
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (1985)

“I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.”

Speech to the Conservative Party Conference in Bournemouth (1 October 2006), quoted in The Times (2 October 2006), p. 6
2000s, 2006
Source: Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control
“No matter what we talk about, we are talking about ourselves”
Source: I Touch the Earth, the Earth Touches Me