Silence can be a planrigorously executedthe blueprint to a lifeIt is a presenceit has a history a formDo not confuse itwith any kind of absence

Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions - whether of sex, race, or servitude.

Lying is done with words, and also with silence.

In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.

But it is the subjects, the conversations, the facts we shy away from, which claim us in the form of writer's block, as mere rhetoric, as hysteria, insomnia, and constriction of the throat.