“Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch. ”

“Nothing is more frightening than a fear you cannot name.”

“And yet, it gives Peter nothing. Not now. Not today. Not when he needs... more. More than this well-executed idea. More than the shark in the tank meant to frighten, more than the guy on the street meant to say something pithy about celebrity. More than this.”

“Nothing more or less than the deepest, most desperate desire of our hearts.”

“I had known loneliness before, and emptiness upon the moor, but I had never been a NOTHING, a nothing floating on a nothing, known by nothing, lonelier and colder than the space between the stars. It was more frightening than being dead.”

“Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.”