“...it was necessary to love silence, but before you could love silence you had to have noise.”
“Love is silence multiplied by noise and divided by two.”
“Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.”
“Then there was a silence he had never before experienced: in it, you could hear the years.”
“Silence is a giver; it gives some things to you! Noise is a taker; it takes some things from you! Seek for the silence!”
“I love your silences, they are like mine. You are the only being before whom I am not distressed by my own silences. You have a vehement silence, one feels it is charged with essences, it is a strangely alive silence, like a trap open over a well, from which one can hear the secret murmur of the earth itself.”