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…

- Thomas M. Disch

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

- Thomas M. Disch

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

- Thomas M. Disch

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…

- Thomas M. Disch

Creativity is the ability to see relationships where none exist.

- Thomas M. Disch

Sameness is what marketers want us to want.

- Thomas M. Disch

Sometimes the whole world is mud luscious and puddle wonderful

- Thomas M. Disch

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…

- Thomas M. Disch

Creativeness is finding patterns where none exist.

- Thomas M. Disch