The state of perpetual emptiness is, of course, very good for business.

I'm the empty stage where various actors act out various plays.

There is even rhythm in being empty.

One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach — waiting for a gift from the sea.

My witness is the empty sky.

Gloomy calm of idle vacancy.

On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.

I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.

Museums and bookstores should feel, I think, like vacant lots - places where the demands on us are our own demands, where the spirit can find exercise in unsupervised play.

There is enough money when no one steals.

We all know that the world is empty and that the important thing, the only thing, is to try to maintain order in that emptiness.

True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?

The experience of being empty, uncluttered by memories and expectations; it is like the happiness of open spaces, of being young, of having all the time and energy for doing things, for discovery, for adventure.

The world is a navy in an empty ocean.