“Because my life is empty window of nothingness punctuated by meaningless details of totally mundane non-events.”

“There was nothing now but this empty treadmill of what Clifford called the integrated life, the long living together of two people, who are in the habit of being in the same house with one another. Nothingness! To accept the great nothingness of life seemed to be the one end of living. All the many busy and important little things that make up the grand sum-total of nothingness!”

“Nowadays, her life is more like a newspaper: aimless, up-to-date and full of meaningless events”

“Much of life appears mundane at the time. Yet in God's providence every moment includes significant details arranged by His divine hand.”

“In my life, water has had the character of punctuation.”

“To know nothing about yourself is to be constantly in danger of nothingness, those voids of non-being over which a man walks the tightrope of his life.”