Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled. – Horace

Basically you are like two parallel lines which never meet. Dialogue seems to be impossible. All is monologue — you are talking to yourself and the other is talking to himself. Two monologues together look like a dialogue only in appearance. – Osho, The Revolution: Talks on Kabir, 1979

Among provocatives, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. I have even more thoughts during or enduring it than at other times. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Does it seem sometimes that you are always the one to break an embarrassing silence — and always by saying something more embarrassing than the silence? – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com