I do insist on silence and things like that, when I'm talking.

In fact, you can count on our silence and discretion.

They strike the mind like single notes falling on silence.

"Then there was something," he said, picking up on her silence.

In that way, he turned his back on silence and numbness.

G: I am counting on your silence, wrote his former master.

I wanted to know more about the alleged spirit, but he insisted on total silence.

"What, then, was your intention when you insisted on her silence?"

This emphasis on silence is fully explored in some of his works.

There was a scuttling on the steps and silence again.