Genius is an infinite capacity for pain.

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.

Creativeness is finding patterns where none exist.

Pray always for grace and strength.

You must wear clothes which suits your own soul, not your own society! What you wish to do is much more important than what your society wants you to do!

No one can claim perfection, that's why everyone needs a second chance ad infinitum

The Swartzentruber Order is the most conservative on the Amish spectrum. Amish people have differences just like any culture.

The germs of all things are in every heart, and the greatest criminals as well as the greatest heroes are but different modes of ourselves.

How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied.

Handguns are a public-health problem.

The really great thing about having two TV shows going on at the same time is that I can go to one and say that I have to go and visit the other and then I can just go home and they don't know.

As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.

How you treat the helpless is the real test of morality. Lots of people are flunking that test big time.