Science Fiction is a branch of children's literature.

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.

I go to bed with knowledge to dream, then dreams wake me up with the lights of wisdom.

I didn’t think saying good-bye would be so hard. And with everything that’s to come—We’ll face it together. To whatever end.

Don't wait to celebrate life until you retire, because you never know the day you will expire.

You don't want captains in the army who know too much or think too much.

Unless the Spirit of God is with us, we cannot expect that our prayers will be answered.

I am inspired by the lives of good and faithful women. From the beginning of time, the Lord has placed significant trust in them.

Genetically my legs are supposed to be huge. I can't really think about it, or I'll go crazy.

Then why can’t I bully you into procreating? (Wulf) See! I’m the only human in history to have Viking yenta of his very own. God, how I wish my father had been a fertile man. (Chris)

College just didn't even have computers for an under-curriculum when I started college.

At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer, you will find at least two human errors, one of which is the error of blaming it on the computer.