When not deeply engaged in creative activities, or numbed out by the TV, I felt empty. My heart hurt. I often felt hollow or as if I were some sort of wispy ghost, barely existing.

I feel hollow inside, as if there’s a black hole where my heart was, as if I am caving in around myself.

The politician is the poorest man in the world, the most empty man, the most hollow—stuffed with straw and nothing else.

We've observed that people who stall in their personal growth work often have counterproductive soft addictions that stand in their way of growth and having the life they say they want. It can be a simple thing, such as watching TV instead of finishing a project.

Some of those early Kinks songs, we were barely in tune.

In the 1970s, there was a trend for all detectives on TV to have some quirk or gimmick, and this was often physical.