I never discuss anything else except politics and religion. There is nothing else to discuss.

People don't talk about anything... No, not anything. They name a lot of cars or clothes or swimming pools mostly and say how swell! But they all say the same things and nobody says anything different from anyone else.

When a man says he does not want to speak of something he usually means he can think of nothing else.

Sometimes I lie in bed trying to decide which of my friends I truly care about, and I always come to the same conclusion: none of them.

The reason lovers never tire of one another’s company is because they never talk of anything but themselves.

We dislike talking about our experiences. No explanations are needed for those who have been inside, and the others will understand neither how we felt then nor how we feel now.

We talk about things. We talk about nothing.

I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.

Everyone was good at talking about day-to-day events, but no one ever looked at what motivated them.

Don't talk about horrid subjects. If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened.

Not that we were incompatible: we just had nothing to talk about.

nor am I the derider of my associates, O father, but the same man to my friends when they are not present, and when I am with them.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

I have seldom heard people engaging in deep intellectual conversations. Most chats are either about mundane life decisions [...] or juicy gossip.