I'm convinced that imagination is at the heart of everything we do - in art, science, even astrophysics and higher mathematics. Imagination leads us to ask, "What if?"

It was 1943. The U.S. had already entered World War II, so I decided to join the army.

If I do find pride, I'll not find it in what I was or what I am, but what I may become. Not in my birth, but in myself.

I have never known courage to be judged by the length of a man's hair. Or, for the matter of that, whether he has any hair at all.

Do you not believe that animals know grief and fear and pain? The world of men is not an easy one for them.

Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good?

Dealing with the impossible, fantasy can show us what may be really possible. If there is grief, there is the possibility of consolation; if hurt, the possibility of healing; and above all, the curative power of hope. If fantasy speaks to us as we are, it also speaks to us as we might be