Sion

“You seem to think that the only genuine existence evil can have is conscious existence - that no one is evil unless he admits it to himself. I disagree.”
― Gene Wolfe

“Here is light. You will say that it is not a living entity, but you miss the point that it is more, not less. Without occupying space, it fills the universe. It nourishes everything, yet itself feeds upon destruction. We claim to control it, but does it not perhaps cultivate us as a source of food? May it not be that all wood grows so that it can be set ablaze, and that men and women are born to kindle fires?”
― Gene Wolfe, The Citadel of the Autarch

“Keep your intelligence white hot and your grief glistening“
so your life will stay fresh.”
― Rumi Jalalu'l-Din

“My definition of good literature is that which can be read by an educated reader, and reread with increased pleasure.”
― Gene Wolfe