Escribo para que la quimera de lo vivido se convierta en esa realidad imaginaria mucho más viva.

[Charles] Nodier’s later view was that fantasy reconciles men to their fate. Fantasy and the taste for chimeras, he wrote, are symptoms of a time of political decay and transition, when the unpleasant realities of political life are too hard to bear. They serve a useful purpose in that they give men hope when scepticism and disillusion would otherwise drive them to despair.

I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.

It is beyond the imagination of the menu-maker that there are people in the world who breakfast on a single egg.

I loved the world of imagination.

Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.