I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of read more

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it, we go nowhere.

When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.

When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.

When I could not sleep for cold
I had fire enough in my brain,
And builded with read more

When I could not sleep for cold
I had fire enough in my brain,
And builded with roofs of gold
My beautiful castles in Spain!

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from read more

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

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real read more

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling read more

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination read more

My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.