Powerlessness and silence go together.

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love.

Perhaps its not the world that is soundless but we who are deaf.

The trickle-down theory of economics has it that it's good for rich people to get even richer because some of their wealth will trickle own, through their no doubt lavish spending, upon those who stand below them on the economic ladder. Notice that the metaphor is not that of a gushing waterfall but of a leaking tap: even the most optimistic endorsers of this concept do not picture very much real flow, as their language reveals" pg. 102.

As an artist your first loyalty is to your art. Unless this is the case, you're going to be a second-rate artist.

But maybe, underneath, she loves him too much. Maybe it's her excessive love that pushes him away.

he might die for her, but living for her would be quite different.