Promises were like bad checks, easy to write and hard to cash. — Robert Charles Wilson Cash Copy Share Image
It was the kind of experience, Molly said, that would grow calluses on an angel's ass. — Robert Charles Wilson Angel Copy Share Image
Ah, books." Ziegler, smiling, came up behind me. "They bob like corks on an ocean. Float between worlds, messages in bottles. — Robert Charles Wilson Behinds Copy Share Image
Understanding is better than ignorance. Ignorance, unlike life, unlike narrative, is static. Understanding implies a forward motion, thus the possibility of change. — Robert Charles Wilson Change Copy Share Image
I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God. It feels like idolatry, like the worst kind of idolatry. — Robert Charles Wilson Feels Copy Share Image
Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit. — Robert Charles Wilson Adulthood Copy Share Image
Goddamn you," Jacob said. "There's no damnation, Jacob. No Heaven but the forest and no God but the hive. — Robert Charles Wilson Damnation Copy Share Image
I loved Molly. Or at least I told myself I did. Or, if what I felt for her was not love, it… — Robert Charles Wilson Convincing Copy Share Image
John Scalzi is a fresh and appealing new voice, and Old Man's War is classic SF seen from a modern perspective—a fast-paced… — Robert Charles Wilson Classic Copy Share Image
“there is a prejuidice imposed on us by our brief window of consciousness: things that move are alive, things that don't are… — Robert Charles Wilson Philosophy of Mind Copy Share Image
The Mysteries are the Mysteries, and ultimately personal maybe the most personal thing in the universe. Evangelism, in my opinion, is a… — Robert Charles Wilson Desert Copy Share Image
The conversation was mesmerizing, not for its content but for the cadences of the talk, the rhythm we fell into when we… — Robert Charles Wilson Awkward Copy Share Image
There are so many kinds of time. The time by which we measure our lives. Months and years. Or the big time,… — Robert Charles Wilson Big time Copy Share Image
These movies belonged to the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries that period of great, unsustainable, and hedonistic prosperity, driven by the burning… — Robert Charles Wilson Burning Copy Share Image
Consciousness," according to current scientific thought, was something the higher mammals had evolved in order to help them reproduce, much the way… — Robert Charles Wilson Biologically Copy Share Image
“… the vices and wickedness of the Secular Era, some of which still lingered, he said, in the cities of the East… — Robert Charles Wilson Space travel Copy Share Image
“I thought of Einstein, and his insistence that no particular point of view was more privileged than any other: in other words… — Robert Charles Wilson Einstein Copy Share Image
“By definition, you can’t experience your own death. Death is the end of consciousness. And consciousness persists. In the language of physics,… — Robert Charles Wilson Death Copy Share Image
It was possible at last to hear the silence to appreciate that there was a silence, deep and potent, out there beyond… — Robert Charles Wilson Appreciate Copy Share Image
I understand so very little. But I am not afraid to look: I am a good observer at last. My eyes are… — Robert Charles Wilson Eye Copy Share Image
It was amazing how these events lost their impact, translated through the flat gaze of a video screen. — Robert Charles Wilson Events Copy Share Image
“And the strange thing was that it felt absolutely familiar, the curve of her arm under my hand and the weight of… — Robert Charles Wilson Romance Copy Share Image
“I had an idea that sobriety was a weapon. I thought it would give me an advantage over my enemies. I wasn't… — Robert Charles Wilson Sobriety Copy Share Image
“Our truest and best American antiquity, as the Dominion History of the Union insisted, was the nineteenth century, whose household virtues and… — Robert Charles Wilson Antiquity Copy Share Image
Times like this, with the wind moving the grass and curling around her like a huge cool hand, Tess felt the world… — Robert Charles Wilson Felt Copy Share Image
“What is inevitable is not death but change. Change is the only abiding reality. The metaverse evolves, fractally and forever. Saints become… — Robert Charles Wilson Change Copy Share Image
We spent a lot of time discussing cosmology first. I think that was your father's unique way of evaluating people. You can… — Robert Charles Wilson Astronomy Copy Share Image
Do you want to tell the truth, or do you want to tell a story? — Robert Charles Wilson Stories Copy Share Image
“Vanished children, I can't think where I lost them...” — Robert Charles Wilson Children Copy Share Image
We're as ephemeral as raindrops. We all fall, and we all land somewhere. — Robert Charles Wilson Ephemeral Copy Share Image
I suppose the pursuit of fashion has always carried a price, monetary or otherwise. — Robert Charles Wilson Fashion Copy Share Image
If I am an agnostic, Calyxa, it's because I'm also a realist. — Robert Charles Wilson Agnostic Copy Share Image
“I wanted to sell tomorrow to the highest bidder and settle down forever in July second.” — Robert Charles Wilson Wanted Sell Copy Share Image
Some pious men may find this truth unorthodox and bitter: But Nature, Chance, and Time ensure survival of the fitter! — Robert Charles Wilson Bitter Copy Share Image
Does it strike you, Mr. Keller, that we live every day in the science fiction of our youth? — Robert Charles Wilson Doe Copy Share Image
