Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.

Belief sometimes precedes understanding; faith sometimes precedes scientific evidence.

Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .

Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.

Illness is regarded as a crime, and crime is regarded as illness.

The dream police will not let me have sexual fantasies.

my love of water ... is mingled with and almost indistinguishable from a fear of water (I can float in a vertical position - I enter a fugue state - but I cannot bear to bury my face in water).