“The two men sat there together, in the kind of silence that's not empty because it has the thoughts of two longtime friends to fill it.”

“Maybe sadness was a kind of hunger, she thought. Maybe the two went together.”

“She was my friend because she was kind and funny but she had a face like two oysters fused together in a Star Trek matter transporter accident.”

“We didn't say or write anything for a long time. Normally silence like that was uncomfortable and awkward. Like you needed to say something to fill the empty space in the air. But it didn't feel like that with Samantha. Maybe it was because I couldn't say anything and fill the quiet, but I thought it was more about two people just being with each other, enjoying the slowdown and the rare sunshine.”

“We just sat there on the sofa and looked at each other, a kind of unspoken mutual understanding filling the silence.”

“Collaborating on a film script involves two people sitting in a room separated by the silence of two minds working together.”