“I didn't feel empty. I wished I'd felt empty…. I wanted to be empty like an overturned pitcher. But I was full like a stone.”

“I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.”

“I only wish that wisdom were the kind of thing that flowed … from the vessel that was full to the one that was empty.”

“I only wish that wisdom were the kind of thing that flowed … from the vessel that was full to the one that was empty.”

“I sat up, sliding them off, and the quiet around me did not, for once, seem empty and vast. Instead, for the first time in a while, it felt like it already was full.”

“people diminish me;
the longer I sit and listen to them
the more empty I feel but I don't get
the idea that they feel empty, I feel
that they enjoy the sound from their
mouths.”

“Revenge leads to an empty fullness, like eating dirt.”

“All at once I felt so vain, like a girl posturing for the crowds as she walks along, only to discover the street is empty.”

“At first I felt dizzy - not with the kind of dizziness that makes the body reel but the kind that's like a dead emptiness in the brain, an instinctive awareness of the void.”

“I swear, I end up feeling empty, like you've taken something out of me and I have to search my body for scars.”