Imagine the universe beautiful and just and perfect. Then be sure of one thing: The Is has imagined it quite a bit better than you have.

Imaginations and illusions are always so much more powerful and bigger than this mediocre and boring thing called reality.

I began to wonder whether anything truly existed, whether reality wasn't an unformed and gelatinous substance only half-captured by my senses....If that were true, each of us was living in absolute isolation. The thought terrified me. I was consoled by the idea that I could take that gelatin and mold it to create anything I wanted...At times I felt that the universe fabricated from the power of the imagination had stronger and more lasting contours than the blurred realm of the flesh-and-blood creatures around me.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge.

The universe has a much greater imagination than we do, which is why the real story of the universe is far more interesting than any of the fairy tales we have invented to describe it.

The imagination has made more discoveries than the eye.

Imagination reveals the possibilities beyond the edges of our reality.

I was finding myself forced to acknowledge that the limit of my imagination was by no means the limit of the world.

I feel more and more every day, as my imagination strengthens, that I do not live in this world alone but in a thousand worlds.

but one of the things that drew me to science fiction and then into fantasy was how it rewarded me for using my imagination. And it wasn’t just using my imagination to picture myself on a space station or riding a dragon;* it was using my imagination to visualize and believe in a world where the things that made me weird and awkward would actually make me cool and valuable.

The world of reality has its limits,the world of imagination is boundless.

Imagination, given time, does rule the world.

The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.

I believe in a parallel universe of image and fantasy that isn't so much fantasy as it is forever sealed in films and things that have entertained us for years. This parallel universe has influenced me perhaps even more than the real world or the physical world. Because when I think of certain things, like a beautiful woman, its most likely someone I saw on film... these are things I've been taking from film or television and applying it to real life.