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.

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

Knowledge is devalued when it becomes too generally known

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.

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

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.

Creativeness is finding patterns where none exist.