“A word into the silence thrown always finds its echo somewhere where silence opens hidden lexicons.”

“And where there is no Echo there is no description of space or love. There is only silence.”

“Silence is the echo of the eternal world. It is a place where God can come and speak and we can listen to him...and then silence becomes music, it's something that's full of life, an expectancy, there's a grace in it.”

“Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.”

“Cave is a good word.... The memory of a cave I used to know was always in my mind, with its lofty passages, its silence and solitude, its shrouding gloom, its sepulchral echoes, its fleeting lights, and more than all, its sudden revelations....”

“I can always tell when you're reading somewhere in the house,' my mother used to say. 'There's a special silence, a reading silence.”