Forks and spoons have probably done more to reconcile people who cannot agree than guns and bombs ever did

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

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

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.

The institution of marriage, if you look at it over many centuries, has come and gone.

The great attraction of fashion is that it diverted attention from the insoluble problems of beauty and provided an easy way -- which money could buy... to a simply stated, easily reproduced ideal of beauty, however temporary that ideal.

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.