Thurston struck up conversations with strangers. He…

I knew he was unreliable, but he was fun to be with. He was a child’s ideal companion, full of surprises and happy animal…

— Anonymous

“You have not achieved anything in life if you have not enjoyed the food made by your mom..”

— Himmilicious

“Striking up conversations with strangers is something like extreme sports for autistic people.”

— Kamran Nazeer

It wasn't only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.

— Alain de Botton

Virtually anything is more stimulating than conversations with strangers at social gatherings.

— James Cook

There is a huge difference between writing a book, which is a private activity I engage in with myself, and wanting to engage in…

— Michelle Tea

“He could not make conversations with strangers, and yet conversations with strangers were perhaps the first thing required of him in his new life.”

— Alice McDermott

In dialogue, there is opposition, yes, but no head-on collision. Smashing heads does not open minds.

— Deborah Tannen

What it comes down to for me is this: Will the technologies of communication in our culture, serve to enlighten us and help us…

— Roger Waters

“To engage in dialogue is to serve others via whatever is real inside you; to engage in debate is to ultimately serve the illusions…

— Oli Anderson

A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the…

— Samuel R. Delany

Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth.

— Mark Twain

We should have a conversation when we hang up.

— Benedict Cumberbatch

The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean…

— John Searle

Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom…

— Emily Robison