There's a certain kind of lonely man who rejects love, because he believes that anyone who offers it wouldn't be a lover… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
You're a materialist, like all ignorant people. But your materialism doesn't make materialism true. Don't you know that? In the final summing… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“I have said that I cannot explain my desire for her, and it is true. I loved her with a love thirsty… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“We talked of love, and all we said would fill a book thicker than this. Yet all we said was only this:… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
A hundred wise men have said in various ways that love transcends the power of death, and millions of fools have supposed… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
You must know the story of how the race of ancient days reached the stars, and how they bargained away all the… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
The same authorities who insist upon beginnings, middles, and ends, declare that Great Literature (by which they mean the stories they have… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“The experienced feel love or desire, or both. The inexperienced are sick with a thousand feelings, most of them unformed: fearful that… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“If Thecla had symbolized love of which I felt myself undeserving, as I know now that she did, then did her symbolic… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
Some writers say they cannot write in front of a window; many say they cannot function without almost perfect quiet. A writer with only… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share
“Sometimes driven aground by the photon storms, by the swirling of the galaxies, clockwise and counterclockwise, ticking with light down the dark sea-corridors lined… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share
Ambiguity is necessary in some of my stories, not in all. In those, it certainly contributes to the richness of the story. I doubt… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share
“There are beings—and artifacts—against which we batter our intelligence raw, and in the end make peace with reality only by saying, “It was an… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share
Science has so accustomed us to devising and accepting theories to account for the facts we observe, however fantastic, that our minds must begin… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share
“The experienced feel love or desire, or both. The inexperienced are sick with a thousand feelings, most of them unformed: fearful that they may… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share
“For those who have never attended a science fiction convention, masquerades are features of most of the larger ones. Awards are presented for best… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share
“He had a wild yellow beard and long, tangled hair that stood out from his head in a way that made it seem too… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share
“For after all, if the lives of most men are examined in detail, it will be found that they have been experts of immense… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share
You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing. — Gene Wolfe Copy Share
“...the progress of science depends much less upon either theoretical considerations or systematic investigation than is commonly believed, but rather on the transmittal of… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share
“Whatever we may say, all of us suffer from disturbed sleep at times. Some in truth hardly sleep, though some who sleep copiously swear… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share
“. . .Consciousness came and went. Consciousness went and came like the errant winds of spring, and I, who so often have had difficulty… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share
