Quotes from Robert Charles Wilson

Mortality, a writer of my generation once said, trumps morality.

there is a prejuidice imposed on us by our brief window of consciousness: things that move are alive, things that don't are dead.

Average people seldom talked about anything interesting and often hurt each other savagely.

We'll do what life always does defy expectations.

Understanding is better than ignorance. Ignorance, unlike life, unlike narrative, is static. Understanding implies a forward motion, thus the possibility of change.

We spent a lot of time discussing cosmology first. I think that was your father's unique way of evaluating people. You can tell a lot about a person, he once said, by the way they look at the stars.

Some pious men may find this truth unorthodox and bitter: But Nature, Chance, and Time ensure survival of the fitter!

I loved Molly. Or at least I told myself I did. Or, if what I felt for her was not love, it was at least a plausible imitation, a convincing substitute.

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 tour of a daunting, hostile universe.

Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit.

And death? I don't fear death. I dread the absence of it.