Plato worried that philosophical writing would take the place of living conversations for which, in philosophy, there is no substitute.

Ah, they said. Qué bueno. And after and for a long time to come he'd have reason to evoke the recollection of those smiles and to reflect upon the good will which provoked them for it had power to...

I can't divide Camille's loyalties. Who knows? He might make the wrong choice.

Good morning," she said. "Are you drunk?"She noticed what a split second it took for him to flare into aggression. "Do I look it?""No. Where is Citizen Danton?""I've done away with him. I've been busy...

What if all everybody needed in the world was to be sure of one friend? What if you were the one, and you refused to say those simple words?

I don't know why I keep asking you these questions. It's not like I expect you to answer, and even if you did answer, how would I know? But maybe that doesn't matter. Maybe when I ask you a question...

I will employ the gentle, vague expression "I'm not crazy about that on you," which should mean to you, "Holy shit, take that off, that looks terrible!" I owe it to you to give feedback like a cattle...

I think that real friendship always makes us feel such sweet gratitude, because the world almost always seems like a very hard desert, and the flowers that grow there seem to grow against such high...

The more people I meet the happier I become.

Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.

You know, Jacob, if it weren't for the fact that we're natural enemies and that you're also trying to steal away the reason for my existence, I might actually like you.

On the contrary, having the amiable vanity which knits us to those who are fond of us, and disinclines us to those who are indifferent, and also a good grateful nature, the mere idea that a woman had...

Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn "reasonable" and become your enemies, one quarter are afraid to stop and speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with...

The very condition of having Friends is that we should want something else besides Friends. Where the truthful answer to the question "Do you see the same truth?" would be "I see nothing and I don't...

Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.

The mark of Friendship is not that help will be given when the pinch comes {of course it will} but that, having been given, it makes no difference at all.

the important thing is not what we {look} like,but the role we play in our best friend's life.

I don't want to beone of those easily forgotten people, so important at the time, so special, s

I gather we're old friends.""By my standards. I daresay you measure your friends by the years you have known them, but you're wrong. Friendship is not measured in years.

It's easy to be friends with when shares the same opinions.

Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of another?We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the end,...

Did he ever--try?'Mingus shrugged. 'He was like you.'What's that mean?'Means he tried.'Of course. The ring was not a neutral tool. It judged its wearer: Aaron Doily flew drunkenly, and Dylan flew like...

Believe that when I am at once a man's friend I am always so-nor is it so very hard to bring me to it. And though a man may enjoy himself in being my enemy, he cannot make me HIS for longer than I...

This same Jesus, though, didn't say we had to be in relationship with everyone. We are not to 'throw {our} pearls to pigs.' {See Matthew 7:6.} He didn't deeply entrust his heart to Pharisees. You see...

If he'll let me. But he left the hospital without talking to me. I don't know what that means."Screw that. "Yes, of course I'll see him again. Isaiah and I are friends and he's going to realize that...

I need you.I'm here.And we sit in silence.

Good conversation is the enemy of falsity, facade, and shallowness. It chases the truth of things, it demolishes the flimsy foundation of facade and it penetrates the depths so as to soar into...

Friendship is a creative and subversive force. It claims that intimacy is the secret law of life and universe.

There was the answer to why people got tangled with people. Because when you were down, when you were wallowing, someone you mattered to would ask if you were okay.

There it was, Eve supposed. There was the answer to why people got tangled up with people. Because when you were down, when you were wallowing, someone you mattered to would ask if you were okay.