What they have done in Japan, which I find so inspirational, is they've brought the toilet out from behind the locked door. They've made it conversational. People go out and upgrade their toilet. They talk about it. They've sanitized it.

Humor can prove to be the conversational lubricant you need to remove the tension from the most unpleasant management- and accountability-related conversations.

Because I was a television writer for many years, I write very conversationally. I put things straight, and with a lot of humor.

I think it's really cool when artists have song titles or album names that are a really conversational sentence.

I'm pretty adept with computers and Photoshop for my blog, and I found my style with a conversational voice and an image-ready column.

Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.

If you're doing an interview you need conversational tension. After you talk to them you're not going to have a relationship with them they're not going to like you they're not going to be your friend.

I know it may seem surprising to people but learning dialog that has a conversational flow to it is not that difficult.

It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has great storytellers and I grew up in a very funny conversational house and didn't have television. This small family farm was a bubble world that didn't have much to do with reality.

Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.