Writers tend to consider distinction and originality as virtues, but they are anathema to publishers.

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.

Writers are archeologists of themselves.

We need to move from comparative advantage to perpetual advantage...

The modern man is usually in a hurry to get to a destination from which he will sooner or later suffer from and at times complain about boredom.

I don't worry about things that aren't important.

I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.

Engineering without imagination sinks to a trade.

Don't make Christ ride shotgun.

We can let the energy of love flow instead of placing it in a jar and leaving it aside.

Man without mysticism is a monster.

There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.