Laughter is just a slowed down scream of terror.

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.

Sooner or later we've all got to let go of our past.

Ambition having reached the summit longs to descend.

No one can bar the road to truth, and to advance its cause I am prepared to accept even death.

The hate which we all bear with the most Christian patience is the hate of those who envy us.

Wealth is only a benefit of the game of money. If you win, the money will be there.

Ronald Reagan wasn't qualified to be governor, let alone president.

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen.

Ah, the pretty whisperers! It was very well When the leaves were thick and green, awhile ago-- Leaves are secret-keepers; but since the last leaf fell There is nothing hidden from the eyes below.

In no way do I want to draw attention to myself.