Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits. When minds meet, they don't just exchange facts: they transform them, reshape them, draw different implications from them, engage in new trains of thought. Conversation doesn't just reshuffle the cards: it creates new cards.

Two individuals, conversing honestly, can be inspired by the feeling that they are engaged in a joint enterprise, aiming at inventing an art which has not been tried before.

The French have made conversation their claim to civilisation.

The kind of conversation I like is one in which you are prepared to emerge a slightly different person.

Breaking accepted rules does bring people together.

Never before have humans been so ambitious, have they thought that they could be much more than their parents were.

Only when people learn to converse will they begin to be equal.