You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

It isn't so astonishing the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things that I can remember that aren't so.

The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book -- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice.

When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales. ... Life on the Mississippi