I didn’t like having to explain to them, so I just shut up, smoked a cigarette, and looked at the sea.

After another moment's silence, she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust her for the very same reason

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion

I put my head under my pillow and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be.

Too many people seem to believe that silence was a void that needed to be filled, even if nothing important was said.

Whoso would be a man would be a nonconformist