Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know.

People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done.

—Cullen Hightower

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex—but Congress can.

—Cullen Hightower

There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little—and it's always somebody else.

—Cullen Hightower

Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.

—Cullen Hightower

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

—Cullen Hightower

Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.

—Bill Watterson

Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

—Benjamin Disraeli

He'd mistaken loneliness for independence, and had become so good at closing himself off from the world that it took an e-mail to remind him what it was like to have a real conversation.

—Jennifer E. Smith in This is What Happy Looks Like

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, whom would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

—Stephen Levine