Quotes about Imagination

Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.

My way of putting it is that Christians are called to live nonviolently not because we believe nonviolence is a strategy to rid the world of war, but in a world of war as faithful followers of Christ, we cannot imagine being anything other than nonviolent.

Science fiction, to me, has not only things that wouldn't happen, but other planets.

One advantage of not being in power is that we can dream of reshaping the world exactly as we please.

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

I know who the great poets are.

Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.

A book is kind of like a river; I simply jump in and start swimming.

However much human ingenuity may increase the treasures which nature provides for the satisfaction of human needs, they can never be sufficient to satisfy all human wants; for man, unlike other creatures, is gifted and cursed with an imagination which extends his appetites beyond the requirements of subsistence. Human

A heaven you created by yourself will never be heaven for long.

Science is now giving us a very helpful language for what religion rightly intuited and imaged, albeit in mythological language. Remember, myth does not mean "not true," which is the common misunderstanding; it actually refers to things that are always true!

Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.