No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.Fran Lebowitz
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.Oscar Wilde
Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.Robert Louis Stevenson
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.George Orwell
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.Descartes