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The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.

  • -- George Santayana 乔治·桑塔亚纳

会话的主要用途是满足说话的冲动。

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There's times when you're having dinner with a good friend and you're in the middle of a conversation and somebody comes up and cuts you off. Can you sign this? Can I take a picture with you? I'm adjusting to all the attention.

有时候你和一个好朋友一起吃饭，你正在谈话，有人走过来打断了你。你能签下这个吗?我能和你合个影吗?我正在适应所有的关注。

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My ideas about time all developed from the realization that if nothing were to change we could not say that time passes. Change is primary, time, if it exists at all, is something we deduce from it.

我对时间的概念都是从这样一种认识发展而来的:如果什么都不改变，我们就不能说时间流逝了。变化是首要的，时间，如果它存在的话，是我们从中推断出来的。

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One of the primary motivations for the series is that I never really felt that I was a person who could explain verbally what I thought all that well.

这个系列的主要动机之一是，我从来没有真正觉得自己是一个能够很好地用语言解释自己想法的人。

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A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.

谈话中突然的沉默突然把我们带回本质:它揭示了我们必须为语言的发明付出多大的代价。

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