Of course, any simplification runs the risk of mutilating reality; but it helps us establish perspectives.

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.

You are a curse in my life!

We are peacemakers but we are also army of Christ

The way I process things, they way I express myself, is in comics, just as poets process things that they are trying to understand.

Writing is like a mental masturbation to me.

Prudence does not save us, but shows us pictures of our destroyers.

As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

What have I done with my baptism and confirmation? Is Christ really at the center of my life? Do I have time for prayer in my life? Do I live my life as a vocation and mission?

It would be creepy if you knew my home address.

A sick body with a good heart is more beneficial to future lives than a fit, healthy body that is used for self-cherishing.

Dreams don't come true. Dreams are true.