“Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.”

“Blessed are they who have nothing to say, and who cannot be persuaded to say it.”

“Only half of writing is saying what you mean. The other half is preventing people from reading what they expected you to mean.”

“Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don't have to say anything - that is how, it is between people who are each other's first memories”

“Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into ideological teams that fight each other as though the fate of the world depended on our side winning each battle. It blinds us to the fact that each team is composed of good people who have something important to say.”

“Writers who have nothing to say always strain for metaphors to say it in.”

“To have nothing to say and to say it in a tragic manner is not the same thing as having something to say.”

“There's all the difference in the world between having something to say, and having to say something.”

“Always have something to say. The man who has something to say and who is known never to speak unless he has, is sure to be listened to.”

“We have passed the age of the demagogue, the man who has little to say and says it loud. We have come to the age of the mystagogue or don, the man who has nothing to say, but says it softly and impressively in an indistinct whisper.”