…a difficult dialogue is better than [having] no dialogue.

Me, I have a science fiction writer's conviction that the damn robot is supposed to speak
human, not the other way around.

Robots are nice to work with. They mind their own business, and they never have anything to say.

People treat it with more respect than they treat any police officer. Maybe because the robot is polite, helpful and never asks for bribes.

Surely, if we take on thinking partners––or, at the least, thinking servants––in the form of machines, we will be more comfortable with them, and will relate to them more easily, if they are shaped like humans.
It will be easier to be friends with human-shaped robots than with specialized machines of unrecognizable shape. And I sometimes think that, in the desperate straits of humanity today, we would be grateful to have nonhuman friends, even if they are only the friends we build ourselves.

Perhaps the best conversationalist in the world is the man who helps others to talk.

People will always talk. The earlier you understand that the easier for you to move past negativity.

I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

It’s lots better to be miserable than to be bored.

Lonely was much better than alone.

Lively, too. Talky as a jaybird. With something smart to say on every subject: better than the radio.

We CAN talk,' said the Tiger-lily: 'when there's anybody worth talking to

Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.

To talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking.