A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement

— Jess C. Scott

A fortress built long ago, Walls made timeless by historic glory. The small girl in the boat slows, To listen to its story.

— Rachel Lewis

After all everybody, that is, everybody who writes is interested in living inside themselves in order to tell what is inside themselves. That is why writers have to have two countries, the one where they belong and the one in which they live really. The second one is romantic, is separate from themselves, it is not real, but it is really there.

— Gertrude Stein

Afterward, in bed with a book, the spell of television feels remote compared to the journey into the page. To be in a book. To slip into the crease where two pages meet, to live in the place where your eyes alight upon the words to ignite a world of smoke and peril, color and serene delight. That is a journey no one can end with the change of a channel. Enduring magic.

— Ann-Marie MacDonald

A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars - billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.

— Carl Sagan

A genuine education must somehow serve the wings of spirit and imagination that each child brings to life.

— Michael Meade

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.

— Catherine the Great

A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life.

— Terence McKenna

A hallucination is to be in the presence of that which previously could not be imagined, and if it previously could not be imagined then there are no grounds for believing that you generated it out of yourself.

— Terence McKenna

Ah? A small aversion to menial labor?" The doctor cocked an eyebrow. "Understandable, but misplaced. One should treasure those hum-drum tasks that keep the body occupied but leave the mind and heart unfettered.

— Tad Williams