“Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.”

“If this life is not a real fight, in which something is eternally gained for the universe by success, it is no better than a game of private theatricals from which one may withdraw at will. But it feels like a real fight.”

“Imagine a world without shadows. You cannot touch a shadow, but a world without them is a hard world, and flat.”

“It was the hour in which objects lose the consistency of shadow that accompanies them during the night and gradually reacquire colors, but seem to cross meanwhile an uncertain limbo, faintly touched, just breathed on by light; the hour in which one is least certain of the world's existence.”

“To forsake Christ for the world, is to leave treasure for a trifle, eternity for a moment, reality for a shadow.”

“Is this the curse of modernity, to live in a world without judgment, without perspective, no context for understanding or distinguishing what is real and what is imagined, what is manipulated and what is by chance beautiful, what is shadow and what is flesh?”