The poetic image exists apart from causality.

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.

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.

Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.

Writing about women's sexuality is very scary for me because I'm always afraid I'll get it wrong.

Never dig up in unbelief what you have sown in faith.

I think the only reason Clarence Thomas is on the court is because he is black

Write down each day what surprised you and how you surprised others. When something strikes a spark of interest, follow it.

I see and praise what is better, but follow what is worse.

If the being of God ceased for one second, the universe would disappear.

It is a mere illusion that, above a certain income, the personal desires will be satisfied and leave a wider margin for the generous impulse.

If you have the desire, if you really had people with the burning desire to lower taxes, it would be done. We know the Democrats don't want to do it.