“I grew up with the colors of war -- the red colors of fire and blood, the brown tones of earth as it explodes in our faces and the piercing silver of an exploded missile, so bright that nothing can protect your eyes from it. I grew up with the sounds of war -- the staccato sounds of gunfire, the wrenching booms of explosions, ominous drones of jets flying overhead and the wailing warning sounds of sirens. These are the sounds you would expect, but they are also the sounds of dissonant concerts of a flock of birds screeching in the night, the high-pitched honest cries of children and the thunderous, unbearable silence. "War," a friend of mine said, "is not about sound at all. It is actually about silence, the silence of humanity."”

Anonymous quip quoted in an essay in Logic, an Introduction (1950) by Lionel Ruby. A Benjamin Franklin quote immediately follows, so this statement was misattributed to Franklin.
Misattributed

Source: Delta of Venus

"Mr. Grimond names 'enemy we march against'", The Times, 16 September 1963, p. 6.
At the Liberal Party Assembly, 15 September 1963, indicating his intention that the party become involved in the central debates of British politics.

Source: Kafka on the Shore

Prospero's Books

"The Man on the Stairs" in Fence (Spring/Summer 2004) http://fence.fenceportal.org/v7n1/text/july.html

from documentary Traceroute

Life in the Industry: A Musician's Diary