“Manners are about imagination, ultimately. They are about imagining being the other person.”

“There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror.”

“Imaginative truth is the most immediate way of presenting ultimate reality to a human being … ultimate reality is what we call God.”

“Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.”

“A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment.”

“Imagine how frustrating it is, being completely locked up and watching your family leave, your wife and children, and not being able to do anything about it.”

“As a mom, I can't imagine how hard it would be to hear hurtful, untrue things being said about my daughters.”

“What cannot be imagined cannot even be talked about.”

“This is a little parable about cities and genres; how, while some of them lose their imaginative centrality, others take their place.”

“The Mysteries are the Mysteries, and ultimately personal—maybe the most personal thing in the universe. Evangelism, in my opinion, is a failure of the imagination. Beware of prophets: the best visions are the ones they leave in the desert.”