A Predilection For Genre Fiction Is Symptomatic

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.

All Children... Feel A Demonic Sympathy With Those Things That Cause Disorder In The Grown-up World.

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.

Creativeness Is Finding Patterns Where None Exist.

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 Bother You. You Can Relax. You Know What? I Like The End Of The World.