Knowledge is devalued when it becomes too generally known

Sometimes the whole world is mud luscious and puddle wonderful

Creativity is the ability to see relationships where none exist.

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.

A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.

I have a different approach. I don't file lawsuits because I really don't care.

The most brilliant actor that I have ever worked with. I've liked others very much more.

To take an unequivocal stand, it seems to me, is of greater heuristic value and far more likely to stimulate constructive criticism than to evade the issue.

Acting, for me, is exhausting. I'm always more energized by directing. It's more intense to direct. I can pop in and express myself, then pop out again. It's a huge passion for me.

I don't like overdubs, never liked them.

Let India become alive by self-purification, that is self-restraint and self-denial, and she will be a boon to herself and mankind.

The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

I'm going to play with physics, whenever I want to, without worrying about any importance whatsoever.

Love is the only disease that makes you feel better.