“...slept too long. And I don’t much like the world I woke up to.” — Robert Charles Wilson Slept Copy Share Image
“You don’t have to be nice all the time. Get angry once in a while. You’re entitled.” — Robert Charles Wilson Angry Copy Share Image
“The universe, it seemed, was full to brimming with lonesome places.” — Robert Charles Wilson Lonesome Copy Share Image
And death? I don't fear death. I dread the absence of it. — Robert Charles Wilson Absence Copy Share Image
There's no point living if you can't, at least occasionally, live. — Robert Charles Wilson Ifs Copy Share Image
This would have been less annoying had it been untrue. — Robert Charles Wilson Annoying Copy Share Image
“Superstition...is what we call the miracles we don't approve of.” — Robert Charles Wilson Hypocrisy Copy Share Image
“Violence is the great attractor of human history, Dr. Iverson. A force almost as irresistible as gravity.” — Robert Charles Wilson Crime Copy Share Image
Evolution can't be predicted, Julian used to tell me; it's a scattershot business; it fires, but it doesn't aim. — Robert Charles Wilson Aim Copy Share Image
“What a person runs from and what a person runs to aren't always as different as we hope.” — Robert Charles Wilson Race Copy Share Image
Is there any evidence to the contrary? I don't need certainty in order to act on a well-founded suspicion. — Robert Charles Wilson Certainty Copy Share Image
“Amazing, I thought, how busily we had turned ourselves into people who didn't know one another very well.” — Robert Charles Wilson Amazing thought Copy Share Image
“Here she was back in the brightly lit world she had been avoiding for twenty years, and it was exactly as awful… — Robert Charles Wilson Awful Copy Share Image
“Fifteen minutes shy of two o’clock. The thick of the night. The zone of lost objectivity.” — Robert Charles Wilson Clock Night Copy Share Image
One doesn't have to understand in order to look. One has to look, in order to understand. — Robert Charles Wilson Learning Copy Share Image
I believed there were no Hypotheticals in the sense of consciously acting agents - conscious entities. There was only the process. The… — Robert Charles Wilson Acting Copy Share Image
“I appreciated her bluntness. Maybe it came with her sudden sobriety. Here she was back in the brightly lit world she had… — Robert Charles Wilson Alcoholism Copy Share Image
“And don’t you dare say you love me, because I know that’s not true. You don’t know the difference between being in… — Robert Charles Wilson Like love Copy Share Image
Since Deacon Hollingshead's arrival in town last July the Dominion had been hard at work, cleansing New York City of moral corruption.… — Robert Charles Wilson Arrivals Copy Share Image
We live in an enlightened age, however, an age that has learned to see and to value other living things as they… — Robert Charles Wilson Age Copy Share Image
I would confront the thieves, I thought, and the self-evident justice of my case would cause them to crumble before me. I… — Robert Charles Wilson Application Copy Share Image
It's partly the Southernization of America, in that the Southern working-class version of redneck is becoming the national version, and it's good-natured,… — Robert Charles Wilson America Copy Share Image
“Smoke poured from every chimney, for the day was cold. The thought of all those coal-grates and wood-stoves made me wary of… — Robert Charles Wilson Architecture Copy Share Image
To fire a bullet into the heart or brains of one's fellow man even a fellow man striving to do the same… — Robert Charles Wilson Barrels Copy Share Image
“I want a better Bible, Adam. I want a Bible in which the Fruit of Knowledge contains the Seeds of Wisdom, and… — Robert Charles Wilson Bible Copy Share Image
“Certainly it's a rare glimpse into the lives of the Secular Ancients. They don't seem as bad as the Dominion histories make… — Robert Charles Wilson Ancients Copy Share Image
“Stick out your arms," he'd say, "straight out at your sides," and when he had you in the appropriate cruciform position he'd… — Robert Charles Wilson History Copy Share Image
“We contrast the urban and the natural, but that’s a contemporary myth. We’re animals, after all; our cities are organic products, fully… — Robert Charles Wilson Natural Copy Share Image
“But physicians don’t really save lives, of course, we prolong them;” — Robert Charles Wilson Doctor Copy Share Image
“But the world is what it is and won’t be bargained with.” — Robert Charles Wilson World Copy Share Image
I don't believe money is evil, but it can be terribly corrosive. — Robert Charles Wilson Believe Copy Share Image
Promises were like bad checks, easy to write and hard to cash. — Robert Charles Wilson Cash Copy Share Image