The reverie would not last if it were not nourished by the images of the sweetness of living, by the illusions of happiness.

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.

Sometimes, when you attempt to run away from your true calling, all roads will conspire to lead you back to where you came from.

Going to the extreme of inviting and welcoming people into your church in order to hear you condemn them or to know from your policy that you condemn them is not much better than bullying.

Everyone must imagine his own snakes because no one else's snakes can ever be as awful.

I’m still afraid to sleep—too many ghosts peering creeping condemning.

She had of course, kept working. He liked to think she would have moved under the table to continue her task if a gun battle had broken out, but he wasn't sure.

Man acquires wealth in proportion as he puts his labor to better account.

The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way.

One must always be civic-minded.

Traveling with a big band is like being an inmate in a traveling zoo.

It is easier going out of the way when we are in, than going in when we are out.