Creativity is the ability to see relationships where none exist.

Sometimes the whole world is mud luscious and puddle wonderful

The distances between the stars seem brief by contrast to the distances between each of us and his fellows.

For a lot of people, poetry tends to be dull. It's not read much. It takes a special kind of training and a lot of practice to read poetry with pleasure. It's like learning to like asparagus.

Gene Wolfe has produced a work of art that can satisfy adult appetites and in which even the most fantastical elements register as poetry rather than as penny-whistle whimsy.

It considered trying to explain their error to them, but what would be the use? They would only go away with hurt feelings. You can't always expect people, or squirrels, to be rational.

Sameness is what marketers want us to want.

Though opposition is a hopeless task, acquiescence would be worse.

A predilection for genre fiction is symptomatic of a kind of arrested development.

Genius is an infinite capacity for pain.

Creativeness is finding patterns where none exist.

It's a true image, born of a false spectacle.

For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted.

I would always be a better hater of things and institutions than a lover of them.

Every moment before this one depends on this one.

A wise man associating with the vicious becomes an idiot a dog traveling with good men becomes a rational being.

You totally need to watch the news." "Can't." "Why?" "It's too depressing." "Right, because hanging with dead people isn't.

Brazil is not what you see but what you feel. Once you spend time here - a week, two weeks - you get in the vibe. It's really intoxicating.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well.

Some people who were central to former success aren't the right people for your future success.