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

- Gene Wolfe

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

People don't want other people to be people.

- 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

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

- Gene Wolfe

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

- 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

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

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

- Gene Wolfe