All the mysteries of the universe are solved within the Imagination.

The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention aand innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power that enables us to empathise with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people's minds, imagine themselves into other people's places.

And many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never troubling to wonder how it would feel to have been born other than they are. They can close their minds and hearts to any suffering that does not touch them personally; they can refuse to know.

We all feel the riddle of the earth without anyone to point it out. The mystery of life is the plainest part of it.

Happiness is a mystery like religion, and it should never be rationalized.