Kim Stanley Robinson

“I can paint that fucking cave.”

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“no one else can live your life for you.”

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“I prefer to call it fiscal decapitation.”

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“Memory is a haunting.”

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“It's the love of right lures men to wrong.”

— Kim Stanley Robinson

What we need is equality without conformity.

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“History is humankind trying to get a grip.”

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“Sheer dumb sentience.”

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“Because history is the soap opera that hurts, the kabuki with real knives.”

— Kim Stanley Robinson

But lies were what people wanted; that was politics.

— Kim Stanley Robinson

Easier to destroy the world than to change capitalism even one little bit.

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“Crap in the Cloud. A novel of celestial sewage.”

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“good is accomplished against the immense black-hole gravity of greed and fear.”

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“Also it isn’t clear yet whether it was an act of God or an act of war.”

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“In games there are rules, but in life the rules keep changing.”

— Kim Stanley Robinson

A sudden gust: How big the world seems in a wind.

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“It's lawmakers know better than anyone that laws are more a matter of practical compromise than any kind of moral imperative.”

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“Beauty is the promise of happiness. And the only happiness is action. ... Fate is the path of least action.”

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“When you have a strong conservative streak in your society,” Zeyk would say, “which detaches itself from the progressive streak, that’s when…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“no extinctions from this point onward are inevitable (this has always been true, however) 19,340”

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“Maybe that’s what a marriage is,” Mqaret said. “Whistling together. Some kind of performance. I mean, not just a conversation, but a…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“In the pseudoiterative, one performs the ritual of the day attentive to both the joy of the familiar and the shiver of…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“We have to start doing this in ignorance of the details of how to do it. We have to learn how to…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“Only a few people in this world were lucky enough to run into their true partners—it took outrageous luck for it to…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“Sometimes I think it's only post-scarcity that evil exists. Before that, it could always be put down to want or fear. It…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

I grew up in a utopia, I did. California when I was a child was a child's paradise, I was healthy, well…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“was fighting the war on a level where it might actually mean something, might have some use, might be a matter of…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

There was nothing for it but to pace through just behind or ahead of the spooling present that was never there, caught…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

History was like some vast thing that was always over the tight horizon, invisible except in its effects. It was what happened…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“He says, “We are visitors on this planet. We are here for ninety or one hundred years at the very most. During…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“When obsessives are given their object of desire, what do they feel? It was hard to say, really. In a sense their…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“And Sarah still looked like the sexiest librarian on earth, which is as those of you who frequent libraries know means very…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“Despair could never touch a morning like this. The air was cool, and smelled of sage. It had the clarity that comes…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“He pointed to another number, changing as rapidly as the first, but on a lower trajectory; it rose to a high of…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“The intense thereness of it-haecceity Sax had called it once, when John had asked him something about his religious beliefs-I believe in…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“A major part of sustainability is social justice, here and everywhere. Think of it this way: justice is a technology. It’s like…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“Marriage," Swan repeated, marveling at the word. To her it was a concept from the Middle Ages, from old Earth--an idea with…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“Sax had always been so uninterested in [power and gain] that it was hard for him to understand why anyone else would…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“But no. That was analogy rather than homology. What in the humanities they would call a heroic simile, if he understood the…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“Chalmers stopped listening and let his gaze wander over the new city. They were going to call it Nicosia. It was the…

— Kim Stanley Robinson