“There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.”

“In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.”

“Being a good Hans Haacke student, part of his influence on me is that there's no difference between a gallery show and a film - or even an ad and a T-shirt-in terms of cultural legitimacy. They're just different contexts in which to have some sort of communication.”

“I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.”

“We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.”

“Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it.”

“I like television. I still believe that television is the most powerful form of communication on Earth - I just hate what is being done with it.”

“Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.”

“There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.”