“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
“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
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
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 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
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
“Violence is the great attractor of human history, Dr. Iverson. A force almost as irresistible as gravity.” — Robert Charles Wilson Crime 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 Copy Share Image
This would have been less annoying had it been untrue. — Robert Charles Wilson Annoying 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 Love 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
I don't believe money is evil, but it can be terribly corrosive. — Robert Charles Wilson Believe 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
“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
“Amazing, I thought, how busily we had turned ourselves into people who didn't know one another very well.” — Robert Charles Wilson 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
“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
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
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
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