Trivial Topics Quotes

What am I going to tweet about? My sneakers?

A television chat show is light entertainment, so it is trivial by its very nature. It is hardly the place to get people to reveal their innermost thoughts. Then it becomes sensationalism, and you lower yourself to the level of the popular newspapers.

I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.

Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.

I remember our first interviews at the Capitol tower. These magazine people were asking us things like 'What's your favorite color?' and 'What do you like to do on a date?' I'd ask, 'Where are you from?' and they'd say, 'Fave' or 'Rave' or whatever. We wondered, 'When do the real writers get here?'

I'm sure there has been something ridiculous [to sign], but nothing springs to mind. You have the usual things like breasts and such.

It's really hard to even talk about the internet without seeming instantly corny.

I notice that students, particularly for gay students, it's too easy to write about my last trick or something. It's not very interesting to the reader.

It has been said in praise of some men, that they could take whole hours together upon anything; but it must be owned to the honor of the other sex that there are many among them who can talk whole hours together upon nothing. I have known a woman branch out into a long extempore dissertation on the edging of a petticoat, and chide her servant for breaking a china cup, in all the figures of rhetoric.