Mere imagination would indeed be mere trifling; only no imagination is mere.

All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite.

Our whole past experience is continually in our consciousness, though most of it sunk to a great depth of dimness. I think of consciousness as a bottomless lak…

Consider what effects that might conceivably have practical bearings you conceive the objects of your conception to have. Then, your conception of those effect…

You advise me, too, not to stray far from the ground of experience, as I become weak when I enter the region of fiction; and you say, 'real experience is peren…

'I would take a twirling baton and use it as my 'icaphone' - that's what I called it - and lay a towel on the floor as my stage.'

My work is a game, a very serious game.