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.

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

How do I know about a man’s needs for a sex symbol? I’m a girl.

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‘.

Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence.

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.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.

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

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

My favorite book is anything by Kurt Vonnegut – he’s my literary hero. I got to meet him several times, which was a great thrill for me. I don’t really remember what we talked about.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Men and women do think differently, and frankly, we don’t understand each other. Not at all! But that’s what makes relationships so amazing.

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, ‚Where’s the self-help section?‘ She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.

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.

If we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what’s causing us to do what we do.

A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.

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

I don’t eat with beautiful women alone.

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

Social media is called social media for a reason. It lends itself to sharing rather than horn-tooting.

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.

You know, you can make a small mistake in language or etiquette in Britain, or you could when I was younger, and really be made to feel it, and it’s the flick of a lash, but it would sting, and especially at school where there’s not much privacy, and so on. You could, yes, undoubtedly be made to feel crushed.

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

You do get certain publications in the States where, if things don’t go according to plan, they flip the story and it becomes very negative.

The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.

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

Don’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

I can unload my opinion on anybody at anytime.

Democracy is a daring concept – a hope that we’ll be best governed if all of us participate in the act of government. It is meant to be a conversation, a place where the intelligence and local knowledge of the electorate sums together to arrive at actions that reflect the participation of the largest possible number of people.

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.

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.

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.

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

In the normal flow of a conversation, our attention is divided. We hear parts of what other people are saying, in order to follow and keep the conversation going. At the same time, we’re planning what we’ll say next, some exciting story of our own.

I remember I was flying home to Los Angeles one day. I was talking to the woman next to me and the flight attendant tried to tell me I was sitting next to somebody that I should know. I didn’t recognize her but it ended up being Beyonce’s sister, Solange Knowles.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

It’s always fun to talk about jazz.

Money and women are the most sought after and the least known about of any two things we have.

I have surrounded myself with very smart people.

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.

Hell is other people.

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.

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’m trying my best to keep up with all this new technology, and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that.

One of life’s terrible truths is that women like guys who seem to know what they’re doing.

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

So, I’m lying on the couch and Laura walks in and I say, ‚Free at last,‘ and she says ‚You’re free all right, you’re free to do the dishes.‘ So I say, ‚You’re talking to the former president, baby,‘ and she said, ‚consider this your new domestic policy agenda.‘

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.

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.

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

I’m the most boring person to talk to.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

I have an urge to communicate. I think I’m a change from what it would be like dating a normal guy who doesn’t talk too much.

The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.

People like to talk about war.

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

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

I would counsel people to go to college, because it’s one of the best times in your life in terms of who you meet and develop a broad set of intellectual skills.

I could talk all day, T stands for talking, T stands for tender, T stands for things that don’t even rhyme with T.