I was trapped in admiration for what I had once admired, as a fly in amber remains the captive of some long-vanished pine.
Gene WolfeOne can't found a novel theology on Nothing, and nothing is so secure a foundation as a contradiction. Look at the great successes of the past--they say their deities are the masters of all the universes, and yet that they require grandmothers to defend them, as if they were children frightened by poultry. Or that the authority that punishes no one while there exists a chance for reformation will punish everyone when there is no possibility anyone will become the better for it.
Gene WolfeYou never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.
Gene Wolfe