Quotes from Robert Charles Wilson

There's no drug that'll make a stupid man smart.

We're as ephemeral as raindrops. We all fall, and we all land somewhere.

An almost infinite diversity of structures compete against the environment.

What we cannot remember, we must rediscover.

Amazing, I thought, how busily we had turned ourselves into people who didn't know one another very well.

I thought of Einstein, and his insistence that no particular point of view was more privileged than any other: in other words his 'general relativity', and its claim that the answer to the question 'What is real?" begins with the question 'Where are you standing?

I was east of Skepticism and north of Faith, with an unsettled compass and variable winds. But I could offer up a prayer as well as the next man, and leave it to Heaven to judge the result.

The Spin's not just some abstract phenomenon—you guys made them look the beast in the eye, and good for you, I guess, but if your project goes wrong you steal that courage away again, and now it's worse because they've seen the thing. And they will not love you for failing, Tyler, because it will leave them more frightened than they've ever been.

Here she was back in the brightly lit world she had been avoiding for twenty years, and it was exactly as awful as she remembered it.

We are as ephemeral as rain drops.

Are you just a car salesman or are you a poet too?" "I've never been accused of poetry before.

I wanted to sell tomorrow to the highest bidder and settle down forever in July second.

Words like anchors, tethering boats of memory that would otherwise be scuttled by the storm.

But physicians don't really save lives, of course, we prolong them;

The universe, it seemed, was full to brimming with lonesome places.

Smoke poured from every chimney, for the day was cold. The thought of all those coal-grates and wood-stoves made me wary of fire, for these buildings were little more than tinder and brown paper, putting on airs of architecture.

Even a dry well may freshen.

Turk had family in Austin, Texas. But they hadn't heard from him lately and wouldn't expect to.

Does it make me a better person to read Cicero in the original? Cicero, for god's sake? The Alan Dershowitz of the Roman Republic?

To put it crudely, in cortical democracies citizens reason together; in limbic democracies they feel together.

The rattle of plates and cutlery was the sound of empires falling.

The book was a pleasure to write, and I thought it both original and good, though what was original about it was not necessarily good, and what was good about it was not always original.

Don't be upset. The world is full of surprises. We're all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we're seldom formally introduced.

In the greenhouse at this nursery where I work, there are paths between the plants and the seedling tables. That's so you can get from one place to another. Also so you can work on the plants without stepping on them. Those paths all connect with one another. You can go this way or you can go that. It all has the same beginning and the same ending. Though you can only ever stand in one place at once.