Ian Asbjornsen

“Then I could not help wondering what the watching gods thought of us, with our clever masks and our jokes. What we think of crickets, perhaps, whose singing we hear with pleasure, though some of us smash them with our heels when they venture into sight.”
― Gene Wolfe, Latro in the Mist

“Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Bagombo Snuff Box

“It is beyond value, which means it is worthless.”
― Gene Wolfe, Sword & Citadel

“Time turns our lies into truths.”
― Gene Wolfe, Shadow & Claw