“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”— Robert Fulghum, amazon.com
“I think of you a lot. I think of you and me walking along in a parking lot at night. Our shoulders rubbing against each other as we listen to our voices. We’re both damaged and beautiful. We know the order of order and the order of disorder. We’ve both been hunted and nearly destroyed by weaklings w…”— Henry Rollins, fuckyeahhenryrollins.tumblr.com
“Amazing scientific fact: The brain cannot tell the difference between fantasy and reality. For example, when I imagine I am running, evidence shows my brain reacting in large part as if I am actually running. This helps explain why using imagination and fantasy is a powerful tool for feeling better.”— Hilary Jacobs Hendel, hilaryjacobshendel.com
“Strange thoughts brew in your heart when you spend too much time with old books.”— Aravind Adiga, amazon.com
“And I realize that no matter where I am, whether in a little room full of thought, or in this endless universe of stars and mountains, it’s all in my mind.”— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com
“You disappear so completely into your head sometimes…I wish I could follow you.”— Cassandra Clare, amazon.com
“I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow.”— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, amazon.com
“We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words on a page; we begin to see images.”— John Gardner, amazon.com
“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“You're only given a little spark of madness. If you lose that, you're nothing.”— Robin Williams, twitter.com