I feel like I'm a much better person when I'm developing my imagination and my innocence and my vulnerability. I like that version of me better than the version where I'm just working on my analytical mind.

My imagination my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time how passion can surprise and renew utterly failed me.

The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

Certainly anyone whom I've witnessed who has gone through something horrible and life-changing has a sense of ironic humor or an ability to look at the peculiarities of the world and find humor in it.

Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.

It is the ability to take a joke not make one that proves you have a sense of humor.

Our ability to find humor in the world to make connections between previously unconnected notions to create new ideas to share in a common culture: All these essentially human acts depend on memory.

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.

Ironically Latin American countries in their instability give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.