I tend to like to read history - recent history, because I find that much more intriguing than just a writer's imagination.
My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.
It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.
There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.
The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.
One thing about 'Star Wars' that I'm really proud of is that it expands the imagination. That's why I like the 'Star Wars' toys.
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people.
Once, America's size in the imagination was limitless. After Europeans settled and changed it, working from the coasts inland, its size in the imagination shrank.
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
'A Princess of Mars' may not have exerted the same colossal pull that Tarzan had on the global imagination, but its influence on generations of readers cannot be underestimated.
Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.
I think we built the right future. If it's a choice between the flying car or the Internet, tablets and smartphones, I'll take what we've got.
My dad used to say, 'Just because you dress up in a coat and tie, it doesn't influence your intelligence.'
I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.
Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed into oblivion.
If nothing else, there's comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will limit our suffering.
The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray.
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
The Egyptian experience suggests that social media can greatly accelerate the death of already dying authoritarian regimes.
The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.
