Gene Wolfe Quotes
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We can dive to the bottom of the sea and some say NASA will fly us to the stars, and I have known men to plunge into the past-or the future-and drown. But there's one place where we can't go. We can't go where we are already. We can't go home, because our minds, and our hearts, and our immortal souls are already there there.
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'We can only hope.''That’s like the frog said when he seen the stork.'
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There are people who love birds so much they free them. There are others who love them so much they cage them.
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She often spoke of marryin' a butcher or a sausage maker, having a liking for those trades, as she said, for they knew you couldn't never get all the stains from their aprons, and didn't demand it.
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There is more to be learned from any good teacher than the subject taught.
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When neither our fellows nor our gods spoil our plans, we spoil them ourselves.
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It doesn't move because he has fastened it in place until he finds out why it doesn't move.
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'You’re called a holy man,' she said. 'I see you’re wholly deranged.'
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Any representation of a god is ultimately a lie, Silk explained. It may be a convenient lie, and it may even be a reverent one; but it's ultimately false. ... Neither image would be more nearly true than the other, or more true than any other-merely more appropriate.
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It’s easy-very easy-to slay a ruler. But it’s very difficult to prevent a worse one from coming to his place.
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He is indeed a creature of evil; but so are you, and so am I.
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People who get eyeball arthritis see only what they're supposed to see, like that TV screen.
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Perhaps I need to begin before I can think clearly about the task. The chief thing is to begin, after all-after which the chief thing is to finish.
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Be careful about extending credit, too, and doubly careful about refusing to extend it.
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You have a walking stick. Suppose it could walk by itself, and that it chose to walk away from you. ... It would no longer be a walking stick at all, only a stick that walked.
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We don't harm the gods when we mingle their names with our curses and obscenities. We harm ourselves. I said that I didn't regard most gods as holy, but they don't have to be for our malice and mockery to recoil upon ourselves.