The boring thing with taking a walk with someone is that your thoughts are then dictated by the subject or subjects of your conversation; and that is made worse by the fact that most sane people are terrified of silence whenever they are with or near someone.

I tend to avoid people who always have something to say … and those who expect me to always have something to say.

We often do or speak, not because of necessity, but because of insecurity.

When you are with any of the vast majority of sane people who can talk, silence is usually as infrequent—and definitely as brief—as the sound of a fart.

We almost always start a conversation, or sustain one, merely to cover the silence with, or merely to keep the silence covered by, the sounds of our words, which seldom form important statements or questions.

Some people seem to see a conversation as a competition to see who can talk the longest and the most often.

Not everyone who talks less or keeps quiet whenever they are with or around you does that because they find you interesting or knowledgeable; some people do that because they find you boring or ignorant.

In many a case, the phrase ‘I’d like to get to know you better’ is a euphemism for ‘I want us to fuck.

The more you know, the less you talk. The less you talk, the more you know.