“If nature abhors a vacuum, historiography loves a void because it can be filled with any number of plausible accounts;Howe, Nicholas, Anglo-Saxon England and the postcolonial void”

“Don’t search for a void to fill. Find a vacuum to carpet. Let this be a lesson in love.”

“My friend died doing what he loved ... Heroin.”

“Books are carefully folded forests/void of autumn/bound from the sun”

“Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.”

“The desert doesn't care who you are, and neither does anyone or anything who lives in it.”

“A negro in the White House? Oh no! Some people thought we'd never set foot in the White House again since we built it!!!!”