I have an imagination because my life is so boring that my imagination lets me get off the reality of what's going on.

All the best have something in common a regard for reality an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.

My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise everything else is a matter of degrees.

There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality that it makes things happen.

It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.

You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality and not according to imagination.

Imagination creates reality.

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is in the end the exact measure of his importance and dignity.