“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 Family 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
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
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's no point living if you can't, at least occasionally, live. — Robert Charles Wilson Ifs 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
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
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
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
“...slept too long. And I don’t much like the world I woke up to.” — Robert Charles Wilson Too long 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
“But physicians don’t really save lives, of course, we prolong them;” — Robert Charles Wilson Medicine Copy Share Image
Promises were like bad checks, easy to write and hard to cash. — Robert Charles Wilson Cash 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 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
You must not make the mistake of thinking that because nothing lasts, nothing matters. — Robert Charles Wilson Failure Copy Share Image
Average people seldom talked about anything interesting and often hurt each other savagely. — Robert Charles Wilson Average Copy Share Image
[There was] only one news channel, overseen by a bland and complexly multicultural board of advisors. It broadcast in fifteen languages and… — Robert Charles Wilson Advisors Copy Share Image
“Sandra had studied psychiatry in order to understand the nature of despair, but all she had really learned was the pharmacology of… — Robert Charles Wilson Despair Copy Share Image
Personally, I don't believe in anything more supernatural than what you read about in the Bible, and I only believe that one… — Robert Charles Wilson Believe Copy Share Image
“Were they our betters? No. They are people like us, Aunt Abbie, no better than some and no worse than others. From… — Robert Charles Wilson Paradise on earth Copy Share Image
I suppose the pursuit of fashion has always carried a price, monetary or otherwise. — Robert Charles Wilson Fashion Copy Share Image