
The Fifth Head of Cerberus: Three Novellas

Each of us finds his way, his place; we rattle around the universe until everything fits;
Gene Wolfe • The Fifth Head of Cerberus: Three Novellas
A child, not knowing what is extraordinary and what commonplace, usually lights midway between the two, finds interest in incidents adults consider beneath notice and calmly accepts the most improbable occurrences.
Gene Wolfe • The Fifth Head of Cerberus: Three Novellas
sanity, after all, is only reason applied to human affairs, and when this reason, applied over years, has resulted in disaster, destruction, despair, misery, starvation, and rot, the mind is correct to abandon it.