So, do you live around here often?

You learn a lot about someone when you share a meal together.

I’ve missed out on a lot of things, going out with friends.

I really miss being able to blend in with people.

People are generally proud of their food. A willingness to eat and drink with people without fear and prejudice… they open up to you in ways that somebody visiting who is driven by a story may not get.

I like learning more about people; I like to talk to people.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

I love to pop up at the movie theaters. I love to treat the people who are there.

I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.

A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn’t care to drink with, even if he drank.

If I had to describe myself to an alien I’d say I was bigger than the average human, enjoy a drink or two with a good meal and have a bigger head than most. I’d also say I’m really handsome – especially if they were a female alien.

Just as I wanted to outdo everyone when I played, I had to outdo everyone when we were out on the town.

I like sitting and writing with my buddies.

I’m pretty laid-back in real life. I just love hanging with my friends and making jokes. The jokes don’t stop – literally, all day.

I like to get in among a set of people and get to know them very well.

I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.

House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

It’s just hard to meet new people, in my position.

You don’t even really need a place. But you feel like you’re doing something. That is what coffee is. And that is one of the geniuses of the new coffee culture.

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.

I’m not someone who sits at home and doesn’t like to go out, doesn’t like to watch movies. I like to live my life.

I don’t know how to work a room. It’s a real skill.

I like to reminisce with people I don’t know.

It’s in my blood to be around people while I was training.

If there’s one thing I’m good at, it’s gathering people together to do something fun.

What can I say? I’m a talker.

Of course, it does depend on the people, but sometimes I’m invited places to kind of brighten up a dinner table like a musician who’ll play the piano after dinner, and I know you’re not really invited for yourself. You’re just an ornament.

My family is very good about visiting me, and other friends as well.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

I do things I love doing. Sometimes that is maybe going out to have a drink with friends, going out partying or whatever.

When you have good friends you’ve been around, every time they talk, you don’t give them your full attention. You don’t look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you’re listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern… No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

You think that the heads of state only have serious conversations, but they actually often begin really with the weather or, ‚I really like your tie.‘

I don’t know about you, but most of my exchanges with cashiers are not that meaningful.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.

People want to go out and travel around and meet cool people. I could just go live in Vermont, but is that what I really want?

Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

My friends and I had fun together, but I was more reserved, not at all the life of the party. I would just be the quiet one in the room.

That’s why I hate to get started in these jam sessions. I’m always the last one to leave.

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

When I’m getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.

I like being around people.

My mom and my dad were both very sociable, meeting lots of interesting people.

I live half the year on Necker, a tiny island in the Caribbean, and it’s always full of people in party mode. Everyone comes up to the big house, and we’ll be dancing until the early hours to the island’s band, the Front Line.

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

Trying to meet new women, it’s always a little more difficult as opposed to calling somebody I knew that’s single and trying to rebuild that connection.