Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.

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.

Nothing is permanent but change.

If you want ideal health, you need to overcompensate and eat an excellent diet.

Innovation: Imagine the future and fill in the gaps.

I'd rather not sing than sing quiet.

I think I was only divorced once, and the rest were annulments. Or, maybe not. I can't keep track actually, because it's not that important. I just am who I am.

Being from Orange County is in a lot ways very much like being from the Midwest.

Well rounded forms gives smooth sounds; sharper or angular forms give harder and harsher sounds.

Enjoy life - you only get one.

If you're remarkable it's likely that some people won't like you.

Somehow [Kenya Bariss] has figured out how to explore these very weighty, sticky, sharp topics, and still be funny and not make fun of the topic.