Perhaps the clock hands had become so tired of going in the same direction year after year that they had suddenly begun to go the opposite way instead.

The soul yearns to fly home on the wings of love to the world of ideas. It longs to be freed from the chains of the body.

Dear Hilde, if the human brain was simple enough for us to understand, we would still be so stupid that we couldn't understand it. Love, Dad.

To wonder about life is not something we learn; it is something we forget.

But she’d managed to find her way into our reality, perhaps because she had an important mission here, perhaps because she was here to save us from what people call the monotony of life.

Wasn’t it extraordinary to be in the world right now, wandering around in a wonderful adventure!

As long as we are children, we have the ability to experience things around us--but then we grow used to the world. To grow up is to get drunk on sensory experience.