Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same and perfectly understand it - without having regard to any religion or opinion.

I cannot imagine having a physical relationship with a woman. I have not done that. But I really love women.

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar is the test of their power.

I mean you know I get a tremendous positive charge every day just from knowing these kids and who they are. I mean Larry my 12-year-old son is my hero in life. Could there be a greater privilege than that? I mean I can't imagine anything that would be more exciting.

Imagine a civilisation that's way in advance of us wants to communicate with us and assist us in our development. The information we provide to them must reflect our highest aspirations and ideals and not just be some crazy person's bizarre politics or religion.

At this point we've answered about every question you could possibly imagine about Deep Space Nine so we do this thing called Theatrical Jazz where we do a show of bits and pieces of things from plays and literature poetry... stuff that we like. It's fun.

Once every five hundred years or so a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.

And at least in poetry you should feel free to lie. That is not to lie but to imagine what you want to follow the direction of the poem.

I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do.

I often imagine that the longer he studies English literature the more the Japanese student must be astonished at the extraordinary predominance given to the passion of love both in fiction and in poetry.