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

Knowledge is devalued when it becomes too generally known

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.

Creativity is the ability to see relationships where none exist.

Sometimes the whole world is mud luscious and puddle wonderful

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.

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 impassioned love.