Knowledge is devalued when it becomes too generally known.

Creativeness is finding patterns where none exist..

But the toaster was quite satisfied with itself, thank you. Though it knew from magazines that there were toasters who could toast four slices at a t….

So, without saying anything to the others, it made its way to the farthest corner of the meadow and began to toast an imaginary muffin. That was alwa….

Let me tell you about the end of the world. It happened fifty years ago. Maybe a hundred. And since then it's been lovely. I mean it. Nobody tries to….

Poets are regarded as handicapped writers whose work must be treated with a tender condescension, such as one accords the athletic achievements of ba….

Sometimes the whole world is mud luscious and puddle wonderful.

The distances between the stars seem brief by contrast to the distances between each of us and his fellows..

The gods, after all, are only human, and once their rage has been placated they are perfectly capable of acts of mercy and grace..

America is a nation of liars, and for that reason science fiction has a special claim to be our national literature, as the art form best adapted to ….

Thought is a disease of the brain. The mind defends itself against the degenerative process of creativity; it begins to jell; notions solidify into i….

Here was a flower (the daisy reflected) strangely like itself and yet utterly unlike itself too. Such a paradox has often been the basis for the most….

The forest stretched on seemingly forever with the most monotonous predictability, each tree just like the next - trunk, branches, leaves; trunk, bra….

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….

But before any of the small appliances who may be listening to this tale should begin to think that they might do the same thing, let them be warned:….

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 pleas….

Though opposition is a hopeless task, acquiescence would be worse..

Creativity is the ability to see relationships where none exist..

Writers tend to consider distinction and originality as virtues, but they are anathema to publishers..

A predilection for genre fiction is symptomatic of a kind of arrested development..

Science Fiction is a branch of children's literature..