“During those nine pouched-up months, what do babies imagine? Gills, swamps, battlefields? To people in wombs, what is imagined and what is real must be one and the same.”
“Imagine a famine. Now imagine a piece of bread. Both of these things are real but you happen to be in the same room with only one of them. Put yourself into a different room, that’s what the mind is for.”
“I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're going to do. I'm just going to do it. Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia.”
“life is our battlefield. We must do what we know to do, not what we want to do.”
“to mature or grow up, is not in what you do, or what you say, but in how you imagine”
“Not what the mind sees, but what the mind imagines the eye must see.”