Quotes by : Gene Wolfe

That we are capable only of being what we are remains our unforgivable sin.

Time itself is a thing, so it seems to me, that stands solidly like a fence of iron palings with its....

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....

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

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

Whatever we may say, all of us suffer from disturbed sleep at times.Some in truth hardly sleep, though....

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

The would-be sorcerer alone has faith in the efficacy of pure knowledge rational people know that things....

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