Quotes About Interaction

Red Cap gave my shoulder a squeeze . I felt like an orange. "If you're trying to get juice out of me," I said, "it's not going to work.

We humans have always sought to increase our personal energy in the only manner we have known, by seeking to psychologically steal it from the others--an unconscious competition that underlies all human conflict in the world.

sudden, spontaneous eye contact is a sign that two people should talk.

It's as though some people think of interviews as a game of catchphrase bingo, rather than a sincere conversation between two strangers.

To me the great divide is between the talkative and the quiet. Do they just say everything that's on their minds, even before it's on their minds? Sometimes I think I could just turn up my head like a Walkman so what's going on there could be heard by others. But there would still be a difference. For inside the head they are talking to people like them, and I am talking to someone like me: he is quiet and doesn't much like being talked at; he can't conceal how easily he gets bored.

When mankind pushes, natures sometimes pushes back

At some point we need to be understood as more of a porous social platform than an impervious temple to culture.

A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?

It seemed the best thing was just to come right out and say it. You know, I said, I'm really not attracted to you. I mean, not that- Isn't that interesting, he said coolly. I'm really not attracted to you, either. But- You were there.

Our large age difference made us shy with each other; there was a formality, a generational reserve;

as skilled a dissembler as I was, I could barely be civil to him;

Months after I got to know the five of them, I found to my surprise that at the start they'd been nearly as bewildered by me as I by them.

See?" said Boris, interrupting Vitya right in

one prisoner looking at another

El mundo no acudirá a mí, solía decir, yo tengo que salir a su encuentro.

A guesstimate?" prompted the man Enrique. "About your dad?" "Ballpark will do," the Korean lady said.

And for the first time, I smiled, and everybody else smiled back.

since I heard. Yes, Will, I do know her, and it makes

A five minute speech," he pointed out, "with fifteen minutes spent afterward is much more effective than a fifteen minute speech, no matter how inspiring, that leaves only five minutes for handshaking.

Oh, no, I'm not saying she isn't a nut -- she is -- but I've noticed before that sometimes someone like that behaves quite ordinarily with everybody, manages everything, you'd never think she was a nut, but there's just one person, with that person, she's out of control. It makes you wonder,' said Alice.

Why write stories? To join the conversation.

If you just go get one of these little fine arts degrees or writing program degrees, it never forces you to confront your responsibility as narrator, whereas any of the social sciences make you at look the interaction between the storyteller and story. Hurston understood that. But then she and I write out of despised cultures that on some level we feel we're defending.

Talk to me, Richard. It isn't difficult. Move the teeth and agitate the tongue. Tell me news of the family. Am I superseded yet? Oh, Richard, a blush!