To fully communicate with people, you need to find tactics that would interest them

A writer is one who communicates ideas and emotions people want to communicate but aren't quite sure how, or even if, they should communicate them.

Gestures and facial expressions do indeed communicate, as anyone can prove by turning off the sound on a television set and asking watchers to characterize the speakers from the picture alone.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.

Can the cannibal speak in the name of those he ate?

Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence.

I distrust the incommunicable; it is the source of all violence.

Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

Put the hay down where the sheep can reach it.

Think like a wise man, but communicate in the language of the people.

The difference between news and gossip lies in whether you raise your voice or lower it.

Don't say it - spray it.

Learn to say No; it will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.

Look around you-there are people around you. Maybe you will remember one of them all your life and later eat your heart out because you didn't make use of the opportunity to ask him questions. And the less you talk, the more you'll hear.

Examine what is said, not him who speaks.

When younger, I thought one of the particulars of being Homo sapiens was to communicate. I have not learned not to, though I am cautious when I try.

Nothing can be so clearly and carefully expressed that it cannot be utterly misinterpreted.

No answer is also an answer.

Don't look over people's shoulders. Look in their eyes. Don't talk at your children. Take their faces in your hands and talk to them. Don't make love to a body, make love to a person.