Who said “There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting…”?

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“He is every other inch a gentleman.”

“Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.”

“Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.”

“The main difference between men and woman is that men are lunatics and woman are idiots.”

“But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.”

“Most works of art, like most wines, ought to be consumed in the district of their fabrication.”