Sameness is what marketers want us to want.

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.

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.

The only thing that powerful men feared above all else was a loss of that power.

The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.

The vibrations of mental forces are the finest and consequently the most powerful in existence.

Do noble things, not dream them all day long.

I am only so beautiful as the character of my relationships, only so rich as I enrich those around me, only so alive as I enliven those I greet.

Religious tolerance. No! Zero tolerance for any type of religion.

I married an awesome cook, thats cool!

Don't be afraid of a little opposition. Remember that the 'Kite' of success generally rises AGAINST the wind of Adversity, not with it.

I'm a nine-year old kid inside and my passion has been all my life to want to travel into space.

The essential element of love is a belief in its own eternity.