“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?”

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

“The most frightening thing in the world is to discover the abnormal in that which is closest to us.”

“There is no meaning to space that is independent of the relationships among real things of the world. …Space is nothing apart from the things that exist. …If we take out all the words we are not left with an empty sentence, we are left with nothing.”

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

“Anything that can go wrong with armed men in the light can go twice as wrong in the dark.”

“Use makes things nothing huge, and huge things nothing.”

“The spectacle of the sky overwhelms me. I'm overwhelmed when I see, in an immense sky, the crescent of the moon, or the sun. There, in my pictures, tiny forms in huge empty spaces. Empty spaces, empty horizons, empty plains - everything which is bare has always greatly impressed me.”

“This is a machine and anything can go wrong with it.”

“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.”