“a deep smothering emptiness”
“She avoids deep thought like an empty restaurant, not out of stupidity, but a canny resolve to be happy.”
“Their voices reach out into the empty yard, plunge deep into the hills, go right through the heart.”
“And Lo, for the Earth was empty of Form, and void. And Darkness was all over the Face of the Deep. And We said: 'Look at that fucker Dance.”
“It is defeat that lives on and takes the years to smother.”
“Emptying the ashtrays was very expressive of myself. I just lump everything in a great heap which I have labeled ‘the past,’ and having thus emptied this deep reservoir that was once myself, I am ready to continue.”