“Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.”

“Everything has two endings-a horse, a piece of string, a phone call. Before a life, air. And after. As silence is not silence, but a limit of hearing.”

“We live between the two great silences: the silence that existed before the world began, and the silence that waits for us at the end of all things.”

“...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.”

“Then without any warning the car stopped. They were there. "The ride's over," someone said. "End of the ride." For a moment nobody got out. They just sat there. The driver cut the ignition, and after that there was silence. Complete, uncanny silence, more frightening than the most threatening noise or violence could have been. Night silence. A silence that had death in it. ("The Number's Up")”