Even the West has known the architecture of empty space, whose object, for thousands of years, has been less to construct divine houses, than to create sacred places, to seize upon mystery and to immerse man in it-whether by raising the cyclopean pedestal that surrounds him with stars, or by hollowing out the sanctuary that wraps him in haunted night.

One can fool life for a long time, but in the end it always makes us what we were intended to be.

To understand what the outside of an aquarium looks like, it's better not to be a fish.

The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides.

There's no such thing as a grown up person.

He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.

Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.