'Again and again I realized how important it is to have a very ordinary thing: good taste. It's good taste above all that determines how long one should speak, how much one should reveal, how deeply one should probe; when to make a joke and when to speak seriously; when one should speak indirectly and when one should speak fully what one has in mind; how to make sure the conversation does not languish and that your partner is comfortable.'
Vaclav Havel, To the Castle and Back, p.323.
