If you want to say something clever, you have only to talk long enough.

If you let a person talk long enough, you’ll hear their true intentions.

Let any one speak long enough, he will get believers.

I want to talk about everything with at least one person as I talk about things with myself.

If all that I would want to do, would be to sit and talk to you… would you listen?

Nobody listens anymore. I can't talk to the walls because they're yelling at me, I can't talk to my wife; she listens to the walls. I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough it'll make sense. And I want you to teach me to understand what I read.

I needed to write, to express myself through written language not only so that others might hear me but so that I could hear myself.

Sometimes it takes a long time to figure out what someone genuinely means when they are talking. This is because often they are articulating their ideas for the first time. They can’t do it without wandering down blind alleys or making contradictory or even nonsensical claims. This is partly because talking (and thinking) is often more about forgetting than about remembering

In order not to find me in contradiction with myself, I should be allowed enough time to explain myself

How do I know what I think until I hear what I say?

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

Listen if you want to be heard

And I look right into his eyes, right into him as far as I can see, because I want him to hear me, I want him to hear me with everything I mean and feel and say.

When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.