Quotes by : Gene Wolfe

We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the....

Then I could not help wondering what the watching gods thought of us, with our clever masks and our jokes.....

If you have a machine with three or four parts, you can shake them up in a box and it's still pretty....

You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.

It seems to me that you can almost define civilization by saying it's people who are not willing to hurt....

And what of the dead? I own that I thought of myself, at times, almost as dead. Are they not locked below....

The castle? The monster? The man of learning? I only just thought of it. Surely you know that just as....

How big is a man's life?" asked Ultan."I have no way of knowing, but isn't it larger than that?""You....

We can think only of creatures, of things He's made. Creatures are all we know, and can be all we know....

You believe me wise because I taught you once, but I have not been north, as you have. You have seen....