“Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.”

“The other thing about FEMA, my understanding is that it was supposed to move into the Department of Homeland Security... and be what it was, but also having a lot of lateral communication with all those others involved in that issue of homeland security.”

“Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.”

“The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.”

“Unlike then, the mail stream of today has diminished by such things as e-mails and faxes and cell phones and text messages, largely electronic means of communication that replace mail.”

“When you stop talking, you've lost your customer. When you turn your back, you've lost her.”

“You know, my dad wasn't a photographer or filmmaker by profession, but on Sundays, he would take pictures of me and my family or his pals horseback riding, and it was a means of communication and affection, a means of not being so dysfunctional with each other.”

“In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.”

“People break down after a couple of hours. All the defenses go down, and there's a kind of communication that if I spent 20 years in a living room with one of these people, I would never, never know as much about them as I do in that one day.”