The gods, after all, are only human, and once their rage has been placated they are perfectly capable of acts of mercy and grace.

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.

No going around it, no short cuts, no laying of hands, no amount of service, no amount of prophecy, without hard work everything else goes to waste.

Fear will hunt you down, right to the very depth of your soul".

But every day I go to work I'm making a bet that the universe is simple, symmetric, and aesthetically pleasing—a universe that we humans, with our limited perspective, will someday understand.

I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp...Then I'd find another one.

And there's no getting around the fact that all life lives at the expense of another life.

Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it.

People go into things for the wrong reasons.

With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich.

You aren't accountable to anyone, teachers or family but to yourself. Make sure your surrounding s are clean in all aspects

Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.