Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

“How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible troub…”

“Le dramatique de la viellesse ce n'est pas qu'on se fait vieux, c'est qu'on res…”

“As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and…”

“Life has always poppies in her hands.”