Gene Wolfe Quotes

...I'll continue to see things as a child. It's not so far to fall.

One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

I think I am a child. Everything blows my mind.

Look at life with the eyes of a child.

I aspire to feel like a child, how about that!

I love looking at pieces of art through the eyes of a child.

We learn many things from children, always.

Children see magic because they look for it.

Love is a naked child: do you think he has pockets for money?

Poets are people who can still see the world through the eyes of children.

If a person continues to see giants, it means he is still looking at the world through the eyes of a child.

Children always turn towards the light. Oh that grown-up people in this world became like little children!

Walt Disney, of all people, did a good job of describing his own netony. "People who have worked with me say I am 'innocence in action,'" he wrote. "They say I have the innocence and unselfconsciousness of a child. Maybe I have. I still look at the world with uncontaminated wonder."

I hope there's always at least a small part of me that's always surprised, always taken aback, always childlike or innocent.

My imagination is closer to a child's imagination than to a grown-up's.

I'm still very much a kid inside myself.

I can remember being eight, and I like writing about that age of innocence when children still have a sense of wonder.

Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment.

Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.

If it seems a childish thing to do, do it in remembrance that you are a child.

The child who has no need to feign empirical knowledge about life can wonder and fantasise with great ease. The world is his oyster, or any other thing he wants it to be.

I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.

I'm a little baby in a barrel just taking everything in. I'm just so fortunate to do whatever I'm doing.

I don't remember being a child, and that's why I think I'm so child-like now in my unending curiosity and approach to life.

I adore kids. I enjoy everything that they bring to the party. They just say what they think.