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.