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.

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.

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.

When dreams come true, you won't realize unless they were dreams of bad fate.

I'm a romantic. I like romantic movies.

You can look only when the mind is completely quiet.

The contradiction in perspective was that it structured all images of reality to address a single spectator who, unlike God, could only be in one place at a time.

The teacher is the only one worth listening to.

Hirsch and Ford believe that we've 'demonstrated' enough. It's now time for 'doing.' This book shows how to be missional 'Right Here, Right Now.'

Physical limitedness can only be surpassed by mental unlimitedness!

People without an internalized symbolic system can all too easily become captives of the media.

I love being with my family, my friends, and my boyfriend.

I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.