“Literature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life.”

“Reality deals in specifics under the guise of generalities. Literature does the contrary...”

“The lesson I have learned is that a failure to cultivate the imagination leads to an unintended neglect of the imaginative literature of Scripture, and this in turn leads to some degree of spiritual atrophy. For Christians, the stories of Revelation are not optional reading. Nor are they child's play. Imaginative literature--the kind of literature that invites us to see in our imaginations what we cannot see with our eyes--is an important part of the Christian's literary diet. It challenges our idols. It challenges what is false and trivial in our lives.”

“No meditation, no life. Know meditation, know life.”

“True religion is not a meditation on death, but a meditation on life.”

“Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.”