When we went in the late 1990s, Nigeria was still in a…

Tim Floyd was a guy from college who hadn't won in the league and he still had that college coaching style of a dictatorship.…

— Baron Davis

It was a book [George Packer written on our presence in Nigeria] that was killed by the response of other people. Which sounds quite…

— Rem Koolhaas

Nigeria was a blank on the map - there weren't even any maps. The US State Department, everyone said don't go there. It was…

— Rem Koolhaas

Nigeria [in 1990] was all rumour, an unbelievable amount of rumour - largely about crime and almost mythical manifestations of evil.

— Rem Koolhaas

In them was not the savage blankness of the reptile species. Instead there was something far worse - burning, unquenchable rage mixed with the…

— Whitley Strieber

“She could, at this stage of things, recognize signals like that, as the epileptic is said to—an odor, color, pure piercing grace note announcing…

— Thomas Pynchon

“It would please him well enough to amount to no more in the end than a single great organ of detection, reaching into blankness…

— Michael Chabon

“Despair dragged at me like an anchor, pulling me down. I closed my eyes and retreated to some dim place within, where there was…

— Diana Gabaldon

He was conscious of nothing except the blankness of the page in front of him, the itching of the skin above his ankle, the…

— George Orwell

“But the trouble is there aren't any bends in my road. I can see it stretching straight out before me to the sky-line…endless monotony.…

— L.M. Montgomery

“He had become blank, but there was not the expectation of something blank, like a page or a canvas; there was not the hope…

— Brooke Davis

It seemed to me the basic definition of mental illness, this persistent, painful inability to simply be with someone else. It might be lifelong,…

— Tracy Thompson

I must not fall asleep in the middle of my life. Out of the blankness that surrounds me I must pluck the incident after…

— J. M. Coetzee

In the next few galactic seconds, the fate of the universe will be decided. Life - the ultimate experiment - will either explode into…

— Marshall Savage

“To think blankness rouses certain terror and in the feeling the sudden sense of self responding down to the smallest unaided particle of its…

— Edwin Honig