“We grow despite the
horror that we feed
upon our own
tomorrow.
We grow.”

From a speech given in Nyeri, Kenya, 26 July 1952.

"The State of Humanity: Steadily Improving," Cato Institute Policy Report, September/October 1995 http://www.cato.org/pubs/policy_report/pr-so-js.html

Attributed in Educational Psychology (2000) by Anita E. Woolfolk, p. 212
2000s

Source: Paradise Lost

Introduction, p. ixi
Disease-Proof Your Child (2005)

“The Finder” (p. 80)
Earthsea Books, Tales from Earthsea (2001)

Open Letter To Satanists
Context: To be a Satanist is not to be liberated. It is to be bonded to death. The freedom it offers is an illusion. And this is something I know every Satanist knows, because I was there. In the dark and quiet, all alone, without the buzz of alcohol or drugs, or the rhythm of music to drown out the sounds, there is an empty echo inside us. A vacancy. A feeling of loss and cold and turmoil and hunger. That emptiness gnaws and hurts worse than anything else in life; we take up knives to carve our skin just to escape it, or run into the arms of a lover to smother it, but it doesn't go away. It grows. It is death at work, emptiness causing decay. No matter how much we feed it SIN, it will never fill up.

No Particular Night or Morning (1951)
The Illustrated Man (1951)

The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009), afterword to "Petting Zoo", p. 432
Nonfiction