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

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.

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.

A school for the writing of nonsense and the pursuit of extraordinary activities.

I'm a worthless check, a total wreck, a flop But if baby I'm the bottom, you're the top.

What will increase one person's personal power will not necessarily be the same for another.

Dennis to friend: No use crying, Joey. There aren't any grownups around.

I spring train in the winter, around early December...

I had to get in touch with the source, I had to go back into my abandonment issues with my mother, I had to go into issues with my father I hadn't even looked at before.

It's fun to be the subservient character who is too dumb to know when to stop trying to win against the awesome superhero.

A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up.

Which religion gives the greatest joy to God? That which inspires human beings to practice Ahimsa and compassion to all creatures.

I just love expanding my horizons and growing as an artist. The only way you get to do that is by doing something that scares you or takes you out of your comfort zone.