269 Quotes by Kim Stanley Robinson

Mass demonstration and insurrection are the only things that will beat them, history shows this.

If you don’t act on it, it wasn’t a true feeling.

Why does nitrogen break so often? Because it’s hard to fix! Ha-ha.

We are the primitives of an unknown civilization.

Charlotte was coming to believe that arrogance was a quality not just correlated with but a manifestation of stupidity, a result of stupidity.

He came to realize that no one was watching him, no one was listening. The tiny imaginary audience inside his head did not exist; no one watches our life movies.

The past is always gone,” Wahram said. “Whether the place is still there or not.

Language is but a huge set of false analogies. There has to be a better way to make a point.

Ever since your Kennedys, it is always a matter of how many stories you can invent to explain the same body of facts. That is the great pleasure of conspiracy theory – not explanation, but narrative. It is like Scheherazade.