True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.

The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I'll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence.

Imagination, industry, and intelligence - "the three I s" - are all indispensable to the actress, but of these three the greatest is, without doubt, imagination.