“Imagination shows an ability to lie, to pretend the world is different than it is.”
“Our power lies in the depth of our compassion and in our abilities to imagine each other in ourselves.”
“By loving them for more than their abilities we show our children that they are much more than the sum of their accomplishments.”
“The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.”
“Reading is primarily a symptom. Of a healthy imagination, of our interest in this and other worlds, of our ability to be still and quiet, of our ability to dream during daylight.”
“The difference between a novelist and a historian is this: that the former tells lies deliberately and for the fun of it; the historian tells lies and imagines he is telling the truth.”