"You imagine that to live in a state of extremity is necessarily to discover the truth about yourself. What you discover then is violence and emptiness. And of this you make a virtue."

"Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved"

"There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do."

"The great instrument of moral good is the imagination."

"Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it."

"It could actually get interesting without really stretching the imagination too far. But it still depends on us winning games, as it has been all year."

"I can't imagine, as a human being, not being able to grow."

"The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport."

"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain."

"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone... they will be forced to deal with pain."

"Imagine what our real neighborhoods would be like if each of us offered . . . just one kind word to another person."

"Imagining may be the first step in making it happen, but it takes the real time and real efforts of real people to learn things, make things, turn thoughts into deeds or visions into inventions."

"I always won in my imagination. I always hit the game-winning shot, or I hit the free throw. Or if I missed, there was a lane violation, and I was given another one."

"Imagination has a great deal to do with winning."

"An idea is salvation by imagination"

"But real life is only one kind of life—there is also the life of the imagination."

"It isn’t a big jump in the imagination to see yourself living alone like Mr Hoppy."

"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine; and at last you create what you will."

"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire..."

"It's unrealistic to live your life within such strict parameters."

"There seemed to be some correlation between devotion to God and a misguided zeal for marshmallows."

"At first, writing for The New Yorker was very scary to me. I couldn't imagine anything that I would write in that typeface."

"Imagine how they would have mocked you if you proclaimed, 'Not only is the world a sphere, but there is an invisible, mystical force that holds everything to its surface'!"

"Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess."