I think the hero in our generation is not the individual but the pair, two people who together add up to more than they are apart.

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

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.

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

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 violent have been victorious for most of history because they kindled the fear with which everyone is born.