Who said “No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a…”?

“The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.”

“I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.”

“There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.”

“Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.”

“We do not talk -- we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.”

“The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.”

“Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.”

“People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.”

“If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.”