The English reputation for humour is a way by which people avoid revealing themselves and have superficial relationships, so that you can engage in banter without making yourself vulnerable.

Everything I am going to say to you is the child of a conversation. [...] That is the aspect of conversation that particularly excites me: how conversation changes the way you see the world, and even changes the world.

The French have made conversation their claim to civilisation.

We should strive to be employed in such a way that we don't realize that what we're doing is work.

One of the great ambitions is to discover the diversity of the world, to discover who inhabits the world.

All invention and progress comes from finding a link between two ideas that have never met.

People in this world of superficial communication find themselves isolated and lonely and have difficult in talking about personal things that really matter to them.