No poet, in his greatest imaginings, could conceive of anything greater than the real;

It gives me great confidence and pride to think that, had the Israelites been influenced by German engineering, Paul and Timothy might have journeyed in an old…

It does not escape me that I am blessed to be included in this tale of a billion human conflicts and singular resolution.

Could we, with human reason, process the finality of death, we would be very different souls, giving more than we take, forgiving easily, and listening with al…

It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does n…

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

I can imagine anything! That's the trouble with me. I can imagine things now - this minute. I could even make them sound all right, but of course none of them …