Even now I will go to, like, an industry event, and all the ladies will be over here and all the guys over here, and I will go to the guys‘ table and sit because I just feel I can have a much better conversation over there. And that’s automatic; it’s not prejudice.

I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That’s a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

You might be the funniest guy in the world, but if you don’t have anything to talk about, people are eventually going to gravitate towards the guy that’s actually saying something.

History is written by the victors.

Being flooded with information doesn’t mean we have the right information or that we’re in touch with the right people.

One of the most terrible feelings in the world is knowing that someone else doesn’t like you. Especially when you don’t know what you’ve done to deserve it.

It’s not a slam at you when people are rude, it’s a slam at the people they’ve met before.

I don’t know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can’t stand to be invited someplace that isn’t full of other important people. They don’t mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.

You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.

Sometimes I’ve been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

The difficulty with this conversation is that it’s very different from most of the ones I’ve had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees.

Our diplomacy and development budget is not just about reducing spending and finding efficiencies. We need a frank conversation about what we stand for as that ‚shining city on a hill.‘ And that conversation begins by acknowledging that we can’t do it on the cheap.

I’m not a natural joiner.

I’ve never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a ‚fat cat‘ and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a ‚public-spirited philanthropist‘.

Luckily for me, people don’t scream at me that much in my everyday life.

Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left – which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study – are not likely to get much attention.

Sucking up to the biggies won’t get us anywhere.

I don’t like talking to celebrities.

I’m not in the loop; I don’t know any actors, really, just the ones I work with.

The greatest thing about being a comedian is knowing other comedians. And you get to talk to them. Its the most fun.

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t they’d be married too.

Usually, when Nirvana made music, there wasn’t a lot of conversation. We wanted everything to be surreal. We didn’t want to have some contrived composition.

Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.

I’m never a reliable narrator, unbiased or objective.

I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do.

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

I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.

I don’t eat with beautiful women alone.

Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others.

Using e-mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world.

There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down. When I saw the stool sitting there, it gave me the idea. I’ll just put the stool out there and I’ll talk to Mr. Obama and ask him why he didn’t keep all of the promises he made to everybody.

I don’t like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they’ll have good voice boxes in case there’s ever anything really meaningful to say.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

I know Gov. Christie. We’ve met a couple of times.

It’s always fun to talk about jazz.

This may sound a little bit idealistic, but when I go to my blog, my Facebook page, my Twitter account, I talk to different people from all over the world, and you see how it’s easy to establish a dialogue.

Algorithms diminish public safety in this country. They ask us to pretend that lengthy arrest records and violent crimes don’t matter. They ask police to scoop up the bad guys only for the courts to immediately release them. They turn us into a bad joke.

It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

Don’t ever call a guy first. The thing they want the most is whatever they can’t have. It sounds really juvenile, but it works.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

I got a chance to work with Stallone and De Niro – pretty much sums it up for me. You can tell where you’re going in your career by the company you keep.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

To recruit staff, I traveled all over the country talking with people who had been working on one or another aspect of the atomic-energy enterprise and people in radar work, for example, and underwater sound, telling them about the job, the place that we are going to, and enlisting their enthusiasm.

People like to talk about war.

I have surrounded myself with very smart people.

I never like being touched, ever. People used to say I held my breath when they were hugging me. I still do.