Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

When imagination is youthful, it propels creativity. Youthfulness in imagination has little to do with age.

Idea comes from senses, but imagination goes beyond. Those who could impel idea with imagination have the best chance to be creative.

Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. And what the Internet brings is lots of vulgar data. It is the antithesis of the imagination. It leaves nothing to the imagination.

For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the difference is that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth