I think it’s fun to play with worlds that you can add a lot of your own imagination to. With ‘True Blood,’ you’re not limited by anything, there are just leaps and bounds of the imagination you can take with these characters.

Now, I’m a failed political consultant. But sometimes fiction has a way of capturing people’s imagination in a way that non-fiction doesn’t. Conservatives typically haven’t written much fiction – specifically political thrillers – over the years to educate, inspire and mobilize people on issues of great import, but we ought to.

Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage.

I never had the financial means that the media said I had. I laugh when I hear the amounts, $400 million, $800 million. Where do they get this imagination?

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

But the greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. You want the listener to find the song on their own. If you give too much away, it takes away from the imagination.

You are indebted to you imagination for three-fourths of your importance.