“...nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness.”

“I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness.They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth.”

“Why did people assume that the beautiful among them needed nothing but their beauty to bring them happiness? That behind the beauty there was nothing but an empty shell, insensitive shell?”

“The spot was empty. Empty but not void. Void is when there is absolutely nothing there and the nothing is natural, a complete vacuum. But empty-with empty, you are aware of what's supposed to be there. Empty means something is missing.”

“Void is when there is absolutely nothing there and the nothing is natural, a complete vacuum. But empty - with empty, you are aware of what's supposed to be there. Empty means something is missing.”

“…it's so dreadful to have nothing to love — life is so empty — and there's nothing worse than emptiness…”