Who said “We do not talk -- we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory…”?

“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.”

“No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.”

“The waking mind is the least serviceable in the arts.”

“Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.”

“The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way.”

“Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race.”

“Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.”

“Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk.”