Available were ways to make a man talk if one didn't mind using him up.

"Bob, have you ever heard an old man talk rapidly?"

This man talks about how much punishment the human body can put up with.

I'm sure you didn't come here to listen to an old man talk about an older building.

If a man talks to me I try not to seem too intelligent.

Instead he was listening to a man talk about politics.

I felt I must not let the man talk to me any more.

So he kept his peace, listened to the dead man talk, and waited for some opportunity to present itself.

"There are ways to make any man talk," he said.

Let the other man talk when he was ready.