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I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.

I think having imaginary friends is an amazing coping mechanism. It's pretty wonderful, and it makes a lot of sense to me.

Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't.

Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one of many ways to express feelings about real people, about real human relationships.

I spent my childhood in an imaginary world - probably because I needed an escape. I think that's one of the reasons people have imaginations - because they can't maintain existence here.

I can't solve the world's problems, can't even begin to contemplate them all. But on my little corner of Earth, I at least can try to live in a way that treads lightly.

In movies and TV, we tend to fall into tropes about how characters might get out of problems. But when you look at real life, you realize that there is a lot of drama of not being able to get out of the problems.

I still have imaginary friends who I talk to in my head.

It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.

It is a queer thing, but imaginary troubles are harder to bear than actual ones.