...hardly enough of me left...

"... for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people. 'But it's no use now,' thought poor Alice, 'to pretend to be two people! Why, there's hardly enough of me left to make ONE respectable person!' " -Lewis Carroll; Alice in Wonderland

There's no such thing as fiction...

"There's no such thing as fiction; if you can imagine something, then it's happened." -Charles de Lint; Someplace to Be Flying

There are no days in life...

"There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Joy is but the sign...

"Joy is but the sign of that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose." -Charles Du Bos

A new idea is delicate...

"A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow." -Charles Brower

Don't worry about people...

"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats." -Howard Aiken

Words are the core of thought...

"Words are the core of thought. Without words there is no thought." -Sorceress of Darshiva

Men have wonderful minds...

"Men have wonderful minds--they can imagine. They can do something wonderful that no beastie can. When some of this magic comes loose and drifts into our world, men's minds give it its shape." -Charles de Lint; Greenmantle

I am enough of an artist...

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." -Albert Einstein

At night, my mind...

"At night, my mind does not care / If what it thinks is here or there. / It tells me stories it invents / And makes up things that don't make sense. / I don't know why it does this stuff. / The real world seems quite weird enough." -Bill Watterson; Calvin and Hobbes

Have you never dreamed...

"Have you never dreamed of riding the wind, chasing the clouds, dancing like a sunbeam on the face of the water? Would you not wish to see the past in an empty mirror--or to hear the music of the stars--to pull down the rainbow--to call up the long-lost dead? You have imagination: use it, give it vitality and force. Turn it into your weapon, a weapon more powerful and more deadly than any of the clumsy engines invented by modern Man." -Jan Siegel; Prospero's Children

I realized that a lot...

"I realized that a lot of people think the grass is greener on the other side... I used my imagination... to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be." -Whoopi Goldberg