I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated.

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.

But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.

To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.

Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.

The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to inspire the imagination of successive generations of Jews with its annually re-enacted drama of slavery and liberation.