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.

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.

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.

I don't mind having to die now, for I see that he is the cause of my death is about to share the same fate.

Nothing is as valuable to a man as courage.

Britain is characterized not just by its independence but, above all, by its openness.

Paul is Starsky, and I met him before shooting. He was very kind and encouraged us to go with what we wanted to do. It was very sweet to see them back with the car after 25 years.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Some pretty senior young individuals in and around the Cabinet should share the responsibility for talking up an election and referring publicly on the radio to where the risk lies.

Aim high, work hard, and love your family.

No man has all the wisdom in the world; everyone has some.

Working with Ava [ DuVernay] and Oprah [Winfrey], they're just so intimate. I feel like we're really family at this point.

Lawrence Kelter is an exciting new novelist, who reminds me of an early Robert Ludlum.