“The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.”— J. B. S. Haldane
“The world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting – over and over announcing your place in the family of things.”— Mary Oliver
“The idea of the extraordinary happening in the context of the ordinary is what's fascinating to me.”— Chris Van Allsburg
“Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”— Lyman Abbott
“Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.”— Gaston Bachelard
“Once upon a time there was a man who was so lonely he lived in a world of his own.”— John Berryman
“A writer's job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories.”— John Irving
“Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it, there is no hope. With it, all things are possible.”— Walter Chrysler