"You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts."

that strikes me as pretentious and silly. i talk when I need to communicate with other people because i am not telepathic nor are any of the the people with whom I need to communicate.

Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, /And think they grow immortal as they quote. Edward Young (1683 - 1765)

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought. Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 - 1957)

A question about English usage - does posting quotes that mock the use of quotations count as irony?