I used to pretend that my Peugeot driving to the gym in the rain in Dublin was a Ferrari on the Vegas strip.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That’s a part of it.

It makes sense that a witch lives in a swamp.

My favourite car I drove in the ‚shoot out‘ at Silverstone was the 2016 Mercedes DTM car. I loved every moment in it, the downforce being particularly surprising.

Getting in and out of the car with the halo takes a bit of experience. I struggled initially, but after a few trial runs I was fine.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

A way to make new music is to imagine looking back at the past from a future and imagine music that could have existed but didn’t. Like East African free jazz, which as far as I know does not exist.

I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

When I was a kid, I read the science-fiction shelves, and I read the fantasy shelves.

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

‚The Lion‘ all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself, ‚Let’s try to make a story about it.‘

You see things; and you say ‚Why?‘ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‚Why not?‘

I love that Cadillac ATS!

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

I don’t listen to the radio very much, but that could be because I don’t have a car.

An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you’re forced back on your own imagination.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Exercise is really important to me – it’s therapeutic. So if I’m ever feeling tense or stressed or like I’m about to have a meltdown, I’ll put on my iPod and head to the gym or out on a bike ride along Lake Michigan with the girls.

I think when people mean that Discworld books have become darker they really mean the series is growing up. In ‚The Colour of Magic‘ most of the city is set alight. It’s a joke, in much the same way that the Earth is destroyed almost at the start of Douglas Adams’s ‚The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.‘

My imagination is a twisted place.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

No one even knows one percent of the fabulous history of Man; but thanks to history, we know about occurrences that go beyond the limits of the imaginable.

Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary ‚real‘ world.

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination.

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely occupied by the images of as many objects as are in front of it.

It’s good to wander into the studio and walk out with something that’s better than you’d imagined it to be. If everything was as you imagined it to be, it just wouldn’t be as much fun.

For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.

Now I think that going to the gym is the best drug. I go four times a week and it gives me the buzz I need.

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves, or even than Dwarves. Of old they spoke the languages of Men, after their own fashion, and liked and disliked much the same things as Men did. But what exactly our relationship is can no longer be discovered.

When I was making ‚Star Wars,‘ I wasn’t restrained by any kind of science. I simply said, ‚I’m going to create a world that’s fun and interesting, makes sense, and seems to have a reality to it.‘

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

I can make something magical and wonderful out of nothing.

I never played with anything like toys.

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

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it’s wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence from June Allyson movies. I knew that was yearning like one yearns to fly.

For me, writing a novel is like having a dream. Writing a novel lets me intentionally dream while I’m still awake. I can continue yesterday’s dream today, something you can’t normally do in everyday life.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.

I hate going to the gym and doing it the old-fashioned way. I hate anything that’s too straightforward, too routine, too familiar. I get bored really, really quickly.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.