Quotes About Interaction

I'm conscious of race whenever I'm writing, just as I'm conscious of class, religion, human psychology, politics — everything that makes up the human experience. I don't think I can do a good job if I'm not paying attention to what's meaningful to people, and in American culture, there isn't anything that informs human interaction more than the idea of race.

Behavior, in turn, seldom stands neutral.

A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

At a brunch potluck, I realize that I do, in fact, hate everybody.

Feydeau's one rule of playwriting: Character A: My life is perfect as long as I don't see Character B. Knock Knock. Enter Character B.

Life is more fun when you open your mouth.

This is what I like, sitting at a table and watching people go by. It does something to your outlook on life. The Anglo-Saxons make a great mistake not staring at people from a sidewalk table.

There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.

It is my feeling that a story is not finished until it is read, and that the reader finishes it through his or her life experience, prejudices, worldview and thoughts.

You don't learn about yourself by being alone, you learn about yourself from other people.

While traveling our separated roads through life, we are also either road signs or potholes on the roads of others.

The greatest failure in life is the failure to participate in life.

We have employments assigned to us for every circumstance in life. When we are alone, we have our thoughts to watch; in the family, our tempers; and in company, our tongues.

Living in a small town, I knew everybody and everybody knew me.

In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them

Dealing with people, my friends, is really nothing more than a question of the price that one is willing to pay. The better you understand life, the more capital you build.

I don't really think about doing something kind, I think there's just a way to conduct your daily life with compassion to other people.

If I'm in a social situation sometimes I'll hang back and observe people but I feel very much a part of things most of the time and feel very comfortable socializing and have for most of my life.

Words have a life; without response they die.

That's the whole point of life, you know? To meet new people.

Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.

I get to meet people from all walks of life, from all different countries, from different backgrounds.

I've never asked a girl out in my life, they have to ask me.

In life you throw a ball. You hope it will reach a wall and bounce back so you can throw it again. You hope your friends will provide that wall.