So like a forgotten fire a childhood can always flare up again within us.

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.

I called the desert into a storm.

I've realized that aging is the younger cousin of dying. ... How much time do I have left? We become aware that we're on the downside of the mountain, coasting toward our final days.

Curiosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity.

People would see me on a Nickelodeon commercial, and I would hear about it the next day in school

Of nothing but me I sing, lacking another song.

People are writing shorter jokes. The style I've started with was almost trying to keep jokes under 140 characters before Twitter.

Physics has the cutest words.

Economics is too important to leave to the economists.

My body is the fruit of spirits' play.

Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill rode to glory on the back of the strong declarative sentence.