Creativeness is finding patterns where none exist.

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

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.

Science Fiction is a branch of children's literature.

Creativity is the ability to see relationships where none exist.

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.

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 telling the lies we like to hear and to pretend we believe.