Irony gives us, at little expense, the impression that we are experienced psychologists.

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.

My mother used to say about gossipers " Don't worry about people talking about you, whilst they're talking about you they are leaving some other poor innocent soul alone

My favourite thing is when my mother goes in the other to go and to talk to the phone, I use that moment for wisdom.

Madness plants mirrors in the desert. I find the means frightening.

Books can break a man open, even ones about a panda, maybe especially so.

I'd stop the world from spinning for you."That silly line oddly touched me. "I love you.""Liked that one, did you.

When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.

Droplets, droplets: we are all identical drips and drops of people, hovering, waiting to be tipped, waiting for someone to show us the way, to pour us down a path.

I seek a form that my style cannot discover,a bud of thought that wants to be a rose.

As I understand life at different levels, I can use music to express what these levels feel like to me. Hopefully the listener can be transported to this understanding by listening to the music.