I can't work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth and then I can fly free.

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.

Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.

If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth he threatens our life with his lies.

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination.

Reason is the natural order of truth but imagination is the organ of meaning.

Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor it is the sign that he wants all the truth.

And you know whether it's drama or comedy the best work is based on truth. It's just that with comedy the circumstances are just crazy-heightened and you have these crazy things thrown at you. But you still have to do it truthfully because that's where the humor comes from. So it's not that difficult to cross over.