“Maybe his quietness masked a great and boiling soul.”

“Maybe life is just a quiet affair, interspersed with moments of great happiness and grief. Maybe it is the quiet that needs to emerge again, to balance the current run of craziness.”

“Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.”

“Maybe this was the quiet before the real fucking quiet.”

“He was not oppressed by a crowd because in the midst of all the hullabaloo he always found a quiet place for his soul. ”

“The tension of the soul in unhappiness, which cultivates its strength; its horror at the sight of the great destruction; its inventiveness and bravery in bearing, enduring, interpreting, exploiting unhappiness, and whatever in the way of depth, mystery, mask, spirit, cleverness, greatness the heart has been granted - has it not been granted them through suffering, through the discipline of great suffering?”