“The topics which language limits us to aren’t much worth discussing in the first place.(attrib: F.L. Vanderson)”— Mort W. Lumsden Related Quotes “Fresh from the rarefied environments of Harvard, the author says he purposefully took journalism jobs in small southern towns so that he could learn the art of conversation with ordinary people. Is this gift for listening and for conversation, it seems, that allowed him to produce textured historical narratives of grand impact.”— David Halberstam “I think good conversation is really the best form of sex.”— Paul Russell “The host took care to produce one or another of these whenever the current subjects seemed about used up, so that the conversation gathered new life and at the same time steered clear of political arguments, which are hindersome to both ingestion and digestion.”— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin