“Talking with most people usually involves a search for truth. Talking with congressmen is strictly special effects.”

“Sol found their tracts the usual combination of double talk and navel lint-gathering common to most religions.”

“All the excitements of a prohibited book had their usual effect, one of which, as always, is to expose the fact that the censors don't know what they are talking about.”

“Two may talk and one may hear, but three cannot take part in a conversation of the most sincere and searching sort.”

“Searching for those defects, talking like it's a reflex.”

“John Dewey, the educator said, no, no, let the free press report the truth to the American people and the needs will be reflected, to the congressmen and senators in Washington. And he was right. But they’re not telling the truth anymore. They all were doing the headlines rather than headway. They’re all getting by with perceptions; they’re all getting by with pollster politics. They’re not talking about the needs.”

“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”

“There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.”

“You're going to burn in a very special level of hell. A level they reserve for child molesters and people who talk at the theater.”

“The manner in which,, and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftener quoted; because it is entirely composed of thoughts born from the common talk of life.”