“The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves th...” — Jean de la Bruyere Quote

“The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.”

“A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably.”

“The very impossibility in which I find myself to prove that God is not, discovers to me his existence.”

“If we fail to appreciate the soul that Easternism gives us, then what we have is a disconnected, Greco-Roman, Western, egocentric, compartmentalized, reductionist, fragmented, linear thought process that counts on cleverness.”

“In older science fiction stories, they had to rely on storytelling as opposed to spectacle. The old run of the 'Twilight Zone,' the star was the writing and the storytelling, and the characters and the twists and the cleverness in the setup and payoff and execution.”