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

I was enjoying myself writing, because I don’t know what’s going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don’t know at all what you’re going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you’re a kid and you’re reading stories.

The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing.

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

It’s always fun to talk about jazz.

My imagination is a twisted place.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.

It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike.

Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else’s ideas of who you can or can’t become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a ‚Keep Out‘ sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

When I was a kid, I thought movies just came from air. I thought they just appeared.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

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.

In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

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.

Our diplomacy and development budget is not just about reducing spending and finding efficiencies. We need a frank conversation about what we stand for as that ‚shining city on a hill.‘ And that conversation begins by acknowledging that we can’t do it on the cheap.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

I just have a relationship with my imagination. It’s like my friend, almost.

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Talking, it seemed to me, was the point of adult existence.

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

We can fear things into existence. Fear looks into the future and imagines the worst that can happen.

Usually, when Nirvana made music, there wasn’t a lot of conversation. We wanted everything to be surreal. We didn’t want to have some contrived composition.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn’t insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

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

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.

Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.

A reader can never tell if it’s a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you’re reading it, they’re the same. It’s a thimble. It’s in the book.

If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they’ll have good voice boxes in case there’s ever anything really meaningful to say.

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.

Even now I will go to, like, an industry event, and all the ladies will be over here and all the guys over here, and I will go to the guys‘ table and sit because I just feel I can have a much better conversation over there. And that’s automatic; it’s not prejudice.

I sell escapism.

The power of imagination makes us infinite.

A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.

I don’t think there’s such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

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

Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn’t exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you’d rather be in.

Everything I’ve been thinking, every vision, even down to every shot I throw, it just ends up here in reality. Whether it was in a fight and how to react or whether it was in a stadium with screaming fans or whether I was in a fancy car or the best clothes ever, I always put myself somewhere.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real. That is my world, you could say.

Eventually you won’t think of ‚the Internet business.‘ You’ll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn’t clear.

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.