“The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death.”

“Low comedy, empty heroics and pointless death”

“What would killing the Elders result in?" "Panic? Fear? Three empty parking spaces in the Sanctuary?”

“These are the believers in life and the bounty of life, and their coffer is never empty.”

“I saw the endless steppes, which, although they appeared to be nothing but desert, were, in fact, full of life, full of creatures hidden in the low scrub. I saw the flat horizon, the vast empty space, heard the sound of horses’ hooves, the quiet wind, and then, all around us, nothing, absolutely nothing. It was as if the world had chosen this place to display, at once, its vastness, its simplicity, and its complexity. It was as if we could—and should—become like the steppes—empty, infinite, and, at the same time, full of life.”

“With mind distracted, never thinking, "Death is coming,"To slave away on the pointless business of mundane life,And then to come out empty--it is a tragic error. (116)trans by Robert Thurman”