“Give me silence, water, hopeGive me struggle, iron, volcanoes.”
“Silence didn't bother me, it was actually where I felt most comfortable—in the things that didn't need to be spoken—but this was a very pregnant silence that was starting to give me labor pains.”
“The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind.”
“He is a strange, resolute, repulsive, iron-willed, inexorable old man, [possessing] a firey nature and a cold temper, and a cooler head--a volcano beneath a covering of snow.”
“I like how volcanoes rumble before they erupt, as if to say, Get the hell off me.”
“Writing is a struggle against silence.”