A lot to say about this one, but I'll have to give myself time to write it down. It was outstanding, profound on so many subjects I didn't expect to be addressed. 
 "He saw only one meaning in nothing--the negative, the absence, as in there's nothing there. The positive meaning eluded him, the paradoxical fact that nothing is, indeed, something. Our commandant was a man who didn't get the joke, and people who do not get the joke are dangerous people indeed. They are the ones who say nothing with great piousness, who ask everyone else to die for nothing, who revere nothing. Such a man could not tolerate someone who laughed at nothing."