“He stood very straight and thought of nothing, or at least thought of thinking nothing.”

“Education would be a divine thing, if it did nothing more than help us to think and love great thoughts instead of little thoughts.”

“He expects nothing, she thought, because he's never had anything. And nothing was expected of him. He was free in a way she never would be.”

“A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.”

“He thought about that for a moment, wondered what he should say. The truth or nothing. The truth.”

“Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought.”

“Sometimes I thought about nothing and sometimes I thought about my life. At least I made a living. What kind of living? A living. It wasn't easy. I found out how little is unbearable.”

“To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.”

“But on that sunlit Sunday, Alexander knew nothing, thought nothing, imagined nothing. He forgot Dimitri and war and the Soviet Union and escape plans, and even America, and crossed the street for Tatiana Metanova.”

“How had it happened, Simon thought, that he was bound to these people—to people who thought of him as nothing more than a Downworlder, half human at best?”