Genius always finds itself a century too early.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

Nothing is impossible the word itself says 'I'm possible'!

With the world as it now presents itself there is something perverse and probably dysfunctional about a person who stays in the same house for 40 years. What about the expanding family syndrome the school-lottery migration the property portfolio neurosis? Have you no imagination?

I'm not claiming that football is the nation's salvation in this area but it's one of them one little thing that apparently has captured the imagination of a large sector of our society. But when football can't be a relatively pure outlet a fun thing then it hurts itself.

While F.D.R. once told Americans that we have nothing to fear but fear itself Mr. Ashcroft is delighted to play the part of Fear Itself an assignment in which he lets his imagination run riot.

The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination.

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.

You can understand nothing about art particularly modern art if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.