A house that has been experienced is not an inert box. Inhabited space transcends geometrical space.

Childhood lasts all through life. It returns to animate broad sections of adult life... Poets will help us to find this living childhood within us, this permanent, durable immobile world.

It is a poor reverie which invites a nap. One must even wonder whether, in this "failing asleep", the subconscious itself does not undergo a decline in being.

Air is the very substance of our freedom, the substance of superhuman joy.... aerial joy is freedom.

Irony gives us, at little expense, the impression that we are experienced psychologists.

The best proof of the specificity of the book is that it is at once a reality of the virtual and a virtuality of the real.

Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.