“I felt that pressure of time that is perhaps the surest indication we have left childhood behind.” — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“It was in this instant of confusion that I realized for the first time that I am in some degree insane.” — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
All time exists. That is the truth… If the future did not exist now, how could we journey toward it? If the… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“all time exists.that is the truth beyond the legends the epopts tell. if the future did not exist now, how could we… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
We have treatments for disturbed persons, Nicholas. But, at least for the time being, we have no treatment for disturbing persons. — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
Year followed struggling year for me, and all that time I read--I suppose few have ever read so. I began, as most… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Time itself is a thing, so it seems to me, that stands solidly like a fence of iron palings with its endless… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Whatever we may say, all of us suffer from disturbed sleep at times. Some in truth hardly sleep, though some who sleep… — 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 castle? The monster? The man of learning? I only just thought of it. Surely you know that just as the momentous… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
Women believe -- or at least often pretend to believe -- that all our tenderness for them springs from desire; that we… — 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
“[T]he very existence of such powers argues a counterforce. We call powers of the first kind dark, though they may use a… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Since the time I had ridden Vodalus’s charger out of Saltus, I had supposed in my innocence that all mounts might be… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“And what of the dead? I own that I thought of myself, at times, almost as dead. Are they not locked below… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“And as if by magic - and it may have been magic, for I believe America is the land of magic, and… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
“It is a part of our office to stand uncloaked, masked, sword bared, upon the scaffold for a long time before the… — 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
![“[T]he very existence of such powers argues a counterforce. We call powers of the first kind dark, though they may use a species of deadly light... and we call those of the second kind bright, though I think that they may at times employ darkness, as a good man nevertheless draws the curtains of…” quote by Gene Wolfe](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/89b/gene-wolfe-2530_dark_t-he-very-existence-of-such-powers-argue_1805547.jpg)
