“Every day silence harvests its victims. Silence is a mortal illness.”
“There are times when the air that floats between mortals becomes, in its stillness and silence, as cruel as the edge of a scythe.”
“It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on”
“This love of theirs, with its reassuring domesticity and its easy silences, its permanence, has yoked Sally directly to the machinery of mortality itself. Now there is a loss beyond imagining.”
“When one writer tries to silence another, he silences every writer-and in the end he also silences himself.”
“Silence is golden, and gold is up these days, so silence is a solid investment.”