Gene Wolfe Quotes

It is well, I think, for us to learn to tell evil from good; but it has its price, as everything does. We leave our evil friend behind.

Whatever we may say, all of us suffer from disturbed sleep at times.Some in truth hardly sleep, though some who sleep copiously swear that they do not.Some are disquieted by incessant dreams, and a fortunate few are visited often by dreams of delightful character.Some will say that they were at one time troubled in sleeping but have 'recovered' from it, as though awareness were a disease, as perhaps it is.

It seems to me that you can almost define civilization by saying it's people who are not willing to hurt other people because the other people are different.