“Silence is so steadfast, you know. It is so ample, after all.”
“Hell won't be so bad, you know. After all, I'll be there to keep you company.”
“After all the screaming in our house, there reigned, that winter on Middlesex, only silence. A silence so profound that, like the left foot of the President’s secretary, it erased portions of the official record.”
“The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment’s silence, "Perhaps more so.”
“The simplicity of knowing what’s coming isn’t so simple after all.”
“In Paris, where raillery is so quick to throw emotion out the window, silence, in a roomful of clever people after a story, is the most flattering of all marks of success”