“When you are crazy you learn to keep quiet.”

“When you know something, you know it, and when you don't, you'd better learn. And in the meantime, you should keep quiet, or at least speak only when what you say will advance the learning process.”

“It might drive some people crazy, living like this, but the quiet keeps me company.”

“Sometimes the contradictions in their lives are so intense they seem manufactured for teaching life lessons, but it's hard to keep up with what you're supposed to be learning in that terrible moment between defiance and despair when all your energy is going into figuring out why it took so long to name the thing that's driving you crazy. At those moments, the best I can do is keep quiet and say a little prayer, which is what I did.”

“Why would you keep quiet and allow history to write itself when there is something you can do to rewrite history.”

“Keep in mind that I'm crazy, won't you?”