“When you interrupt, you've stopped listening. People need to be heard.”

“If you intend to create something that people will observe and listen to, you've got to listen to them first.”

“It is an indication that my mental buttery is butterless and my mental larder lardless,
And it consists not of "Stop me if you've heard this one," but of "I know you've heard this one because I told it to you myself, but I'm going to tell it to you again regardless…"”

“If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to hear it again.”

“If you ask for advice, listen, instead of interrupting and debating why it’s wrong.”

“Listen if you want to be heard”

“But we should kill him!'
'No. You've been listen to Brocando too often,' said Bane.
Brocando bristled. 'You know what he is! Why not kill--' he began, but he was interrupted.
'Because it doesn't matter what he is. It matters what we are.”

“You will receive everything you need when you stop asking for what you do not need”

“For what are we interrupted? For the grandest dramas and the greatest joys, … for true loves, for desperate needs … If you are a moral being, you will have done well to be a being who has broken off, one who has stopped.”

“I'm talking about people having a good time, these people, you ever heard of emotional release? You ever heard of need to blow some steam off?”