At the very time I should speak out I feel more than ever the impossibility of doing so.

That is one of the many reasons why I avoid speaking as much as possible. For I always say either too much or too little, which is a terrible thing for a man with a passion for truth like mine.

I couldn’t let her speak or I would never be able to keep my promise.)

I've always been a person who speaks up. I can't help it. Sometimes the practice for me is – perhaps the exercise today is to not speak up.

Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating.

Each one of us grappled with that choice to speak or not to speak because it seemed like there was a very high potential for backlash and blacklisting.

I know. I'm very hard to talk to. I realize that.

silence is the most intolerable of answers.

I speak to issues that people would rather not talk about and it makes them very uncomfortable.

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

I am staying unsettled and trying not to talk for three years. I want to do it very much.

I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.

To resist the social pressure now put even on one's leisure time, requires a tougher upbringing and a more obstinate willfulness about going one's own way, than ever before.

I get tired of talking when I want to be silent.