235 Quotes by Gene Wolfe

Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external realities.

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

We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.

Reality is a crutch for people who can't handle science fiction.

You that read all of this in a year that I will never see will think me wretched, perhaps... But know this: The best and happiest of my hours you know nothing about. I have seen days like gold.

Tous, nous aimons ce que nous détruisons.

Once or twice I saw evidence that rats had been nesting among the books, rearranging them to make snug two and three-level homes for themselves and smearing dung on the covers to form the rude characters of their speech.

People don't want other people to be people.

Gurloes was one of the most complex men I have known, because he was a complex man trying to be simple. Not a simple, but a complex man's idea of simplicity.