Dreaming by the river, I dedicated my imagination to water, to clear, green water, the water that makes the meadows green.

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears its truth.

One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak... It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.

Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.

A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.

When the image is new, the world is new.

Our house is our corner of the world.

Rilke wrote: 'These trees are magnificent, but even more magnificent is the sublime and moving space between them, as though with their growth it too increased.

Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.

I suppose there are people who can pass up free guacamole, but they're either allergic to avocado or too joyless to live.

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

C++ also supports the notion of friends: cooperative classes that are permitted to see each other's private parts.

Mine is an actor's voice, not a singer's voice, but the part was written for an actor (Richard Burton), not a singer.

Life is populated with scarecrows—all those people and things that seem so scary and trouble our sleep. Isn't it nice to know that most of them turn out to be made of nothing but straw?

If you view your life as a piece of fabric or a tapestry, the photography is the stitching. It keeps everything together.

Having been on tour in countries that are extremely eco-friendly, we automatically end up doing the things that normal people do in other countries.

When people meet me they’re often surprised. I talk a great deal.

The way to become famous fast is to throw a brick at someone who is famous.