235 Quotes by Gene Wolfe

I get a lot of people complaining about my ambiguity, often in cases which there is nothing ambigous at all. As far as I can see, people read it when they were half stoned and listening to the TV. Then they come back and say gee, it’s impossible to figure out what’s going on in a story.

Seawrack is singing in the place that lies beyond this place. Listen there, and you cannot help but hear her.” With her I sang a few more words in the language of those whom Mora had once called the People of That Town. “’In our small house with shining windows, I waited till the tide brought your wreck through. Lie here beside me in the darkness. I’ll wake to life the corpse I say is.

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

He’s not rewarding us by talking to us. He’s talking to us because He has something to say to us directly, as opposed to the things He says to all humanity.

Possibly I was mistaken, but it seemed to me that he went pale. At last he muttered, “It isn’t much of a ghost story, I’m afraid, but then I didn’t make it up.

I have tried hard to punish myself for that, and certain other things. No more. Let the Outsider punish me; we deceive ourselves when we think that we can measure out justice to ourselves. I wanted to end my guilt. What was just about that? I should feel guilty. I deserve it.

I myself teach no one, knowing I would make my students stronger to destroy me. I advise you to follow the same course.

It’s a pity you are a torturer,” Ultan said. “You might have been a philosopher.

I nodded and grasped the woman by the arm; the cataphracts released her and turned away like silver automata.