Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Ideas are like pizza dough, made to be tossed around.
In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple.
As humans with egos and feelings, none of us wants to be pilloried. But as thinkers and writers, it's our job to express opinions forthrightly and without qualifying them out of existence.
Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
There's something in me that just wants to create dialogue.
It's no use imagining that bringing great writers together inevitably precipitates great conversation.
How innocent, how happy, how truly delightful, even, would life be if we were to desire nothing but what is to be found upon the face of the earth: in a word, nothing but what is provided ready to our hands!
It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.
I like having the dough to come and go as I please.