“I had no Freedom. I had nothing.”
“but I had also learned that freedom of speech means freedom from rhetoric.”
“Now he had nothing, or he had his freedom. It depended on how he looked at it, he supposed.”
“It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on.”
“I had had my dreams of Venice. But nothing that I had dreamed was as impossible as what I found.”
“I had no genius, no mission to fulfill, no great heart to bestow. I had nothing and I deserved nothing. But all the same I desired some sort of reward.”