“The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written you have to stand by it. You may have said it to see whether you believed it or not.”

“She’s into authentic hearts and mind shattering conversations. Good music and quirky art. Weirdness and eccentric people. Love, kindness and genuine souls. She’s into all this and so much more.”

“A tiny bit of brilliance rubs off on you every time you interact with someone brilliant.”

“Because there are hundreds of different ways to say one thing, I, being a writer, songwriter, and poet, speak childishly and incoherently. In speech there is so much to decide in so little time.”

“Are you joining a conversation or taking it over? Stay aware of how you join a conversation and of your effect on a conversation.”

“We call talking about other people’s personal lives ‘gossip’ only if we aren’t or weren’t part of the conversation.”

“I wanted to listen to him, but I did not want to answer now. That strange responsibility we feel towards others when they speak, to offer them the solace of any answer. Poor humans! And anyway he had not asked a question. He was merely floating there in the room, insubstantial, a living man in the midst of life, dying imperceptibly on his feet, like all of us.”

“The one who would understand me is equally shy to start a conversation.”

“The more you read, the less you sound foolish when you speak.”

“I should have been bolder and kissed her at the end. I should have been more cautious. I had talked too much. I had said too little.”

“সারাটি রাত্রি তারাটির সাথে তারাটিরই হয় কথা,আমাদের মুখ সারাটি রাত্রি মাটির বুকের ‘পরে!”

“Words are not necessary to know things, only to talk about them.”

“I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.”