The best life you can have as you get into old age is good food, good teeth to eat it with, and few worries when you go to bed at night.

I now lived in an invisible place made of my own dwindling breath, and because no one else could see it, they could not yank me out of it.

Our love would be solace, companionship, and the mending of wounds.

...and it's ridiculous that anyone would praise a child for standing with arms spread out on a wooden cross, as if she were Jesus's dead sister wearing a checkerboard tablecloth.

It felt like all the truth got whitewashed with fake happiness, " she said, "only it was not happy and it was worse than fake. It was dangerous

Greatness can only brought through time.

Moses Kaldor had always loved mountains

What one skill, if you developed it, could have the greatest positive impact on your career? This is the key to your future.

Invite the reader to participate by deciphering. Chaos can attract and engage.

Misdirection is one of my strengths.

I'm often uncomfortable taking pictures, especially if people are grieving, or hurt, or hungry. At such times I have to remind myself that I'm a photographer and that this is my job.

The mind is international and supra-national ... it ought to serve not war and annihilation, but peace and reconciliation.

The first lines of defence against criminals are the victims themselves.

He is many things - dangerous and devious, cunning and deadly, a good friend and an implacable enemy - but he comes from an age when a man's word was indeed precious.

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.