Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

The past is a sorry country.

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

There are no inanimate objects.

I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.

Insanity is a lack of proportion.

Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn't care whether flesh is withered or fresh; it caresses aged flesh and firm flesh with equal love.