My English is closer to the literary English, and I'm not very familiar with jokes in English or with, you know, with small talk in English.

It was one of those limp conversations two people have who are never going to see each other again. She couldn't wait to get away from me, and I couldn't wait to get away from her. Not because we didn't like each other, but because there wasn't any point to our being together any longer.

I have the feeling of being a very small item on this planet, and literature enables me to express that.

I'm not an ace at small talk.

All talk is small talk.

I am interested in cultivating the fundamentally holy nature of all language, including most definitely the casual, spontaneous , unselfconscious conversational language.