Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

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.

Give me neither poverty nor riches feed me with food convenient for me.

At what point do [progressives] take off our partisan blinders and start wondering whether a very powerful faction of Democrats actually continues to SUPPORT President Bush and the War in Iraq?

Our real reality is beyond the five senses.

It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table.

As long as you have war, police, prisons, crime, you are in the early stages of civilization.

It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.

I'm just a journalist. I shine a mirror to the culture. I give the cop-out answer.

This policy cannot succeed through speeches, and shooting-matches, and songs; it can only be carried out through blood and iron.

My way is the sensitive, emotional way, because that's who I am. A day doesn't go by where I don't sit and cry, listening to the stories. I try to be the clown and court jester and make people laugh.