“Error can point the way to truth, while empty-headedness can only lead to more empty-headedness or to a career in politics.”

“Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.”

“It's the clear headedness behind her voice and the calm reasonable expression in her eyes that rips my heart right out of my chest. She turns to leave and all I can do is let her go. I just let her go.”

“The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you think you see is only an empty character: truth is always hidden in fiction.”

“Man's right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions must, by all means, be safe, if the word "freedom" should ever be more than an empty political slogan.”

“Maybe I can learn to live in a way that makes it worth writing about, and maybe I can actually become something more than this empty shell.”