Most Gene Wolfe-related posts go on my other blog, but I thought this one fit nicely here:
America is in trouble (as it always is). The chief problem is that it is ruled by an elite that is out of touch with the mass of the governed. It’s a fairly recent problem, and will be fixed in one way or another. America is still the greatest nation on Earth.
— Gene Wolfe, as interviewed by Nick Gevers in 2002. Peter Wright, editor. Shadows on the New Sun: Wolfe on Writing/Writers on Wolfe. Liverpool University Press, 2007. Page 183.