To go upstairs in the word house is to withdraw step by step; while to go down to the cellar is to dream.

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 look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me.

Stop settling for your fears and doubts. You absolutely don't have to be an expert in order to be confident with yourself and your abilities.

Judgment should never enter into the hearts and minds of others while observing another in a pain that cannot be understood.

I loved the full heat of being drunk, like I was made of melting chocolate and spreading in all directions.

How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality?

PROCTOR, his mind wild, breathless: I say--I say--God is dead!

Authority cannot be bought or sold, given or taken away.

What's good about writing is that when you write novels or fiction, people can see that the problems in one region are similar to problems in another region.

I don't watch television.

To be a gluten-free vegan is, like, the most difficult thing you can possibly be.