Gankis lifted an arm to point at the distant shale cliffs. 'And in the face of it there were thousands of little holes, little what-you-call-'ems...'Alcoves,' Kennit supplied in an almost dreamy voice. 'I call them alcoves, Gankis. As would you, if you could speak your own mother tongue.

The future is a blank wall on which every man can write his own name as large as he likes; the past I find already sovered with scribbles, such as Plato, Isaiah, Shakespeare, Michael Angelo, Napoleon. I can make the future as narrow as myself; the past is obliged to be as broad and turbulant as humanity.

She was a blank, a wordless being. She was a hole in the universe.

Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank.

I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.

The future is as blank as a plane sheet if you don't have an eagle's eye, that's why you should climb to a vantage point to get a good perspective view at your future.

History is full of blank spaces, but good stories, invariably, are not.

Living things don't all requirelight in the same degree. Some of usmake our own light: a silver leaflike a path no one can use, a shallowlake of silver in the darkness under the great maples.But you know this already.You and the others who thinkyou live for truth and, by extension, loveall that is cold.

Atheism is a lack of belief...What about the powers of darkness, and that of light, will you trace both to nothing? Then you must have created yourself.

One of the strangest things is the act of creation.You are faced with a blank slate—a page, a canvas, a block of stone or wood, a silent musical instr.