“Nothing is 'just' anything with you”
“If you just set out to be liked, you will be prepared to compromise on anything at anytime, and would achieve nothing. ”
“In real life nothing means anything. Stuff happens and there just is no structure.”
“You're a very difficult person to manipulate, you know.""Nonsense," he said. "You just have to promise me that I won't have to do a thing, and then I'll do anything you want.""Anything?""Anything that doesn't require doing anything.""That's nothing, then.""Is it?""Yes.""Well, that's something.”
“Who said anything about slicing you up? ... I just wanted to carve a little Z on your forehead-- nothing serious.”
“But all I could think of was how when nothing made sense and hadn't for ages, you just have to grab onto anything you feel sure of.”