#silence

#silence

"Machiavelli's logic was ruthless but sound - once you start explaining yourself, you lower yourself to the level of your accuser. You legitimize the attack."

If someone asks David a question during a talk and he doesn't know the answer right away, he will sit in silence for as long as he needs while he thinks about it.

Yet what stays with me most from my 10-day cruise on the Silversea Silver Cloud around the Antarctic Peninsula six years ago is an encompassing noiselessness that seemed to stretch for miles.