Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable. – Carl Jung
Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imagination could become a writer. He also, in a way, gave me permission to write about northern Montana. – James Welch
Well, we cant say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it. – Christopher Hitchens