“A dead dog is more quiet than a house on the steppes, a chair in a empty room.”

“My room is so quiet and empty it hurts.”

“Third - to Mr. Harry Potter,' said Dumbledore. The room went deadly quiet. '...for pure nerve and outstanding courage, I award Gryffindor house sixty points.”

“my heart has more rooms in it than a whore house”

“America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.”

“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.”