“Sometimes it is all too loud.”

“My feelings are too loud for words and too shy for the world.”

“Everything in Los Angeles is too large, too loud and usually banal in concept… The plastic asshole of the world.”

“We sat on a crate of oranges and thought what good men most biologists are, the tenors of the scientific world — temperamental, moody, lecherous, loud-laughing, and healthy. […] Your true biologist will sing you a song as loud and off-key as will a blacksmith, for he knows that morals are too often diagnostic of prostatitis and stomach ulcers. Sometimes he may proliferate a little too much in all directions, but he is as easy to kill as any other organism, and meanwhile he is very good company, and at least he does not confuse a low hormone productivity with moral ethics.”

“Let not a woman's voice
Be loud in council! for the things without,
A man must care; let women keep within—
Even then is mischief all too probable!”

“Sometimes stories cry out to be told in such loud voices that you write them just to shut them up.”

“Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.”

“Life is too short to make just one decision, music is too loud for just one station, love is too big for just one nation, and God is too big for just one religion!”

“The truth is, when it gets really quiet, when the silence gets too loud, i really start to miss everyone.”

“You hear that boy laughing?—you think he’s all fun;
But the angels laugh, too, at the good he has done;
The children laugh loud as they troop to his call,
And the poor man that knows him laughs loudest of all.”