“A hundred times I have thought: New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times: it is a beautiful catastrophe. —Le” — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“All their love had been a way of fixing time, each embrace a moment's touch of the eternal, because the caress preserves.” — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“The past is always gone,” Wahram said. “Whether the place is still there or not.” — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
History is a wave that moves through time slightly faster than we do. — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Individuals make history, but it's also a collective thing, a wave that people ride in their time, a wave made of individual… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“After all, in the end all the great moments of history have taken place inside people’s heads. The moments of change, or… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“It seemed to him that nothing would ever be explained, and that all of a sudden each day was slipping away, that… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
All the repetitions in the pattern were superficial; the moment was always new. It had to be lived, and then the next… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“If our government tries to back the banks instead of us, then we elect a different government. We pretend that democracy is… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“...what has mattered are the moments of exposure to every life, when habit is no longer enough, and choices have to be… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“What was worry, after all, but a kind of fear? It was fear for the future. And in fact the future was… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“Everyone was equal there. Men, women, children, and people you couldn’t say what they were. All the various skin tones, and wherever… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
And in this curious state I had the realization, at the moment of seeing that stranger there, that I was a person… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“There remained a main melody, or a path through a maze—a maze that was like the delta of the Po. He seemed… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
That's one of the ironies of our time: Right when we're on the edge of serious improvements in health care, we're also… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“But things change as time passes; nothing lasts, not even stone, not even happiness.” — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
The minimum that most minimalists want leaves in place just the institutions who protect their interests. That's libertarians for you - anarchists who want… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“You can’t make love to your fame. Even though some people try.” — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“No one cares about books, that’s why you can write anything you want in them.” — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think it's only post-scarcity that evil exists. Before that, it could always be put down to want or fear. It was possible… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
Science fiction rarely is about scientists doing real science, in its slowness, its vagueness, the sort of tedious quality of getting out there and… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
Anyway that's a large part of what economics is - people arbitrarily, or as a matter of taste, assigning numerical values to non-numerical things.… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“The Earth is bathed in a flood of sunlight. A fierce inundation of photons—on average, 342 joules per second per square meter. 4185 joules… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“And so sometimes when you feel strange, when a pang tugs at your heart or it seems like the moment has already happened- or… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“...what has mattered are the moments of exposure to every life, when habit is no longer enough, and choices have to be made. That's… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“There remained a main melody, or a path through a maze—a maze that was like the delta of the Po. He seemed to look… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
