Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, "Just watch!"

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'

sickens and frightens all of us.

If only we'd had someone who knew Iowa politics in the room with us just before the Des Moines Register debate, to warn us about the former New Jersey senator's procedural vote against flood insurance.

This energy is going to carry us all the way, ... Whoever would have thought we'd be met by this kind of crowd in the middle of the night?

There is some advantage in having imagination, since that visionary faculty opens the mental eyes to facts that more practical and duller intellects could never see.