“He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.”
“Love speaks to the heart like a mime to a mute.”
“He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.”
“The though revives in him the oldest memory of his life. A child sees a door closing: without knowing who it is that has just left, he senses it is someone he loves with all his tiny, still mute being.”
“And he loves to read. He loves the whisper of the pages and the way his fingertips catch on rough paper, the pour of the words up from the leaves, through soft light, into his eyes, the mute voice in his ears.”
“If he speaks again without me knowing who he is, I will throw him out of the window. And I won't open it first.”