Quotes by : Gene Wolfe

Once or twice I saw evidence that rats had been nesting among the books, rearranging them to make snug....

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

There is no magic. There is only knowledge, more or less hidden.

People don't want other people to be people.

I have sometimes thought that the reason the trees are so quiet in the summer is that they are in a sort....

My rule is never save bits. They get the way, and you don't think of anything new. Put 'em in. Make a....

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

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....

When a gift is deserved, it is not a gift but a payment.