Communication Quotes

I’m a big fan of the old school telephone. The actual sound of someone’s voice, as opposed to social media, is what’s really important to me.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.

When I am talking I tax anyone I am with, as if I’ve taken him prisoner.

The nervous talk a lot. Craziness often expresses itself in incessant talking. Talking has become a sort of rest from your sick thoughts, a sort of defense against other people.

A good question can open up doors in my mind that I would never think of discussing with anybody.

I don’t do social media at all.

I’ve always felt like if someone asks me something, they want the real answer. I think there’s also something about being from Kansas. Usually people think I’m from New York. The only similarity between New Yorkers and Midwesterners is that what you see is what you get.

I’m not an intellectual in any sense, I have constraints of erudition. I’m not able to deal with things outside my ken, and that makes me irritable. I’m irritable about the fact that I never went to university.

I’m proud of myself because I’m onto a new thing. At 65, I’m different than I was. We’re all rethinking what we said 20 years ago, 10 years ago, four years ago. I’m not even rethinking it, I just don’t have the same way of doing humor or conversation.