imagination is new reality in the process of being created. It represents the part of the existing order that can still grow.

Creation lives alone in a small temple. Only one may worship at a time.

After my mother's death, I began to see her as she had really been.... It was less like losing someone than discovering someone.

To do anything, it is first necessary to be doing nothing.

It seems as if when you try to do just one thing and nothing but, you can't do it at all. You do everything better if there's more than one thing.

We might likewise say that humans are the neurotics of the animal world, in that they are the only animals who must choose to be instead of just instinctively being.

Many an author will speak of writing, in his best work, more than he actually knows.