The only possible proof of the existence of water, the most convincing and the most intimately true proof, is thirst.

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.

To be a climber one has to accept that gratification is rarely immediate.

There should be competition and exchanges between different countries, but there are certainly certain universal values, and that is freedom and democracy.

We still have a problem here in this country of access to airports and airplanes [for terrorists].

Flip a coin. When it's in the air, you'll know which side you're hoping for.

Windows Updates have sometimes been a pain point for users. The update pop-ups can interrupt a movie or a video game, and the automatic restarts can result in lost data or confused users.

Good commanders look after their troops, and good troops look after their commanders.

In my joy I thrust my hand into the live embers, but quickly drew it out with a cry of pain. How strange, I thought that the same cause should produce such opposite effects.

I have been very lucky: my writing has taken me across the world, and I have seen some extraordinary sites and sights.

Bad guys do what good guys dream.

Don’t look for society to give you permission to be yourself.