Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

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.

We're not a product of time. We are a product of eternity.

The evidence is unequivocal, there's a great deal more luck than skill in people getting very rich.

She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself.

I'm never at a loss for new projects.

I grew up in a commune where no one considered me female, particularly.

I'm no good at being good.

I don't know why you don't live it up all the time when's dying's just around the corner, but you don't.

Did they know - the young and fearless - what a miraculous thing it was to have all of anyone?

Civilization is an enormous improvement on the lack thereof.