“If you are not going to be a comfort, have the decency to be an empty space.”

“You're floating in empty space in a universe that goes on forever. If you have to be here, at least be happy and enjoy the experience.”

“Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong?”

“As human beings, we have a natural compulsion to fill empty spaces.”

“If you are going to be scientistic, you will have to be comfortable with a certain amount of nihilism.”

“I really believe in empty spaces, although, as an artist, I make a lot of junk. Empty space is never-wasted space. Wasted space is any space that has art in it. An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have but that he, for some reason, thinks it would be a good idea to give them.”

“Having found nothing worth more than emptiness, he leaves space vacant.”

“Thirty spokes unite at the single hub;
It is the empty space which makes the wheel useful.
Mold clay to form a bowl;
It is the empty space which makes the bowl useful.
Cut out windows and doors;
It is the empty space which makes the room useful.”

“Empty Spaces:
After his father died he carried his life more gently & left an empty space for the birds & other creatures.”

“.. holding a book but reading the empty spaces.”