Gene Wolfe

"Do you know the story about the farmer who complained all his life about getting too much rain or too little, about the soil and the winds and so on? The farmer died and went to Mainframe, and was soo…"

"Now I must, I suppose, explain why I have been writing this account. I have written to disclose myself to myself, and I am writing now because I will, I know, sometime read what I am now writing and w…"

"Adolescents are simply those people who haven't as yet chosen between childhood and adulthood. For as long as anyone tries to hold on to the advantages of childhood—the freedom from responsibility, pr…"

"A trooper fights for honor ... or from loyalty. Or for loot sometimes. But he waits for pay. He will not wait without it, because when there is no fighting there is no honor to win, no flag to die for…"

"When a tree is very old, yet still lives, sometimes the limbs are strangely twisted."

"The same critics who spend hundreds of pages discussing various peculiarities of the author's supposed nature often devote none to that much more significant person, the reader for whom he wrote. It i…"

"He was proud, like all lonely men. Lonely men must be proud or die."

"I was the core of the universe, as we always are to ourselves."