human interaction quotes

I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

To be treated well in places where you don’t expect to be treated well, to find things in common with people you thought previously you had very, very little in common with, that can’t be a bad thing.

Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being?

In this day and age, when you can use a machine or computer to simulate or emulate what people can do together, it still can’t replace the magic of four people in a room playing.

I started out in anthropology, so to me how society works, how people put themselves together and make things work, has always been a big interest.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.