All time exists. That is the truth.... If the future did not exist now, how could we journey toward it? If the past does not exist still, how could w…

- Gene Wolfe

There is no limit to stupidity. - Space itself is said to be bounded by its own curvature, but stupidity continues beyond infinity.

- Gene Wolfe

Weak people believe what is forced on them. Strong people what they wish to believe, forcing that to be real.

- Gene Wolfe

So powerful is the charm of words, which for us reduces to manageable entities all the passions that would otherwise madden and destroy us.

- Gene Wolfe

Certain mystes aver that the real world has been constructed by the human mind, since our ways are governed by the artificial categories into which w…

- Gene Wolfe

Before you ask more questions, think about whether you really want to know the answers.

- Gene Wolfe

People don't want other people to be people.

- Gene Wolfe

Imagine a man who stands before a mirror; a stone strikes it, and it falls to ruin all in an instant. And the man learns that he is himself, and not …

- Gene Wolfe

Religion and science have always been matters of faith in something. It is the same something.

- Gene Wolfe