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.

Creativeness is finding patterns where none exist.

Only those with tenacity can march forward in March

His voice is to entertainment what the kazoo is to classical music.

With begging and scrambling we find very little but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more.

You got to accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative, and latch on to the affirmative. Don't mess with Mr. In Between.

In the many times I have seen Hillary [Clinton] speak, she never fails to dazzle audiences by speaking in paragraphs, without notes.

To find out what happens to a system when you interfere with it you have to interfere with it (not just passively observe it).

Why is autobiography the most popular form of fiction for modern readers?

When you have a kid your life changes completely, it's not about you anymore.

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