“Silence, yes, but what silence! For it is all very fine to keep silence, but one has also to consider the kind of silence one keeps.”
“If what one has to say is not better than silence, then one should keep silent.”
“When one writer tries to silence another, he silences every writer-and in the end he also silences himself.”
“Silence is the demon's trap, and the more one is silenced, the more terrible the demon; but silence is also the divinity's mutual understanding with the single individual.”
“To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. Yes.”
“I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hourto consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to myworld.”