I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have never thought of this.

Move on. Be well. Go for it!

Why must it be one or the other?' she countered. 'You are both a capable seaman and the son of a Bingtown Trader. Why should not I have both sets of skill?

Life is measured in love and positive contributions and moments of grace.

Why do people always think hurting others is all right, as long as they hurt themselves as well?

Montaigne is wrong in declaring that custom ought to be followed simply because it is custom, and not because it is reasonable or just.

Women's liberationists spread the word that the only peaceful family is one in which either the wife is enslaved or the husband is androgynous.

I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck.

Somewhere between the honest truth and the deceptive lie is the deceptive truth and the honest lie.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Gene Wolfe has produced a work of art that can satisfy adult appetites and in which even the most fantastical elements register as poetry rather than as penny-whistle whimsy.