Silence can mock.

“Show Dr. Princi your teeth. That's right, let's see 'em all. Christ, Sparks, is…”

“Hannibal at eighteen was rooting for Mephistopheles and contemptuous of Faust, …”

“M for Mischa.”

“We live in a primitive time—don’t we, Will?—neither savage nor wise. Half measu…”