I just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me.

My problem is that my imagination won't turn off. I wake up so excited I can't eat breakfast. I've never run out of energy. It's not like OPEC oil; I don't worry about a premium going on my energy. It's just always been there. I got it from my mom.

The best things that capture your imagination are ones you hadn't thought of before and that aren't talked about in the news all the time.

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

What grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust.

My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

Fear comes with imagination, it’s a penalty, it’s the price of imagination.

I’m warning you, stay back! This sword has magic.' 'Magic!' the dragon gasped in mock fright. It put a claw to its breast. 'Oh, please, brave man, don’t slay me with your magic sword!

Perception was easily accomplished, required little effort, and it never had to stand the test of reality.

In the Middle Ages, cathedrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World War II movie in the Pacific without a fighter plane shot down in flames.

This, in fact, is the power of the imagination, which, combining the memory of gold with that of the mountain, can compose the idea of a golden mountain.

Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth.

Nobody could have imagined the phenomenon that 'Star Trek' became. It's still almost impossible to imagine.

There is nothing that human imagination can figure brilliant and enviable that human genius and skill do not aspire to realize.

Know what's worse than imaginary, Leon?" "What?" "Half-imaginary.

Because people who couldn’t imagine themselves capable of evil were at a major disadvantage in dealing with people who didn’t need to imagine, because they already were.

I have sometimes thought that his bursts of imaginative talk were fatal to his poetic gift. He squandered too much in the heat of personal communication.

A pioneer should have imagination, should be able to enjoy the idea of things more than the things themselves.

I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be.

When I played in a 21-team league, there were six or seven goalies who were just average, and the equipment and pads were smaller. I came in the right era. I played for the right team. It was all speed, and creativity and imagination.

It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.

We say God and the imagination are one . . . How high that highest candle lights the dark.

The imagination loses vitality as it ceases to adhere to what is real.