Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but... - Ursula K. Le Guin

"As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope."

"My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it."

"As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music. And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you, your thoughts and feelings, the size and temper of your soul."

"Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new."

"The creative adult is the child who has survived."