86 Quotes by Robert Charles Wilson

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

It was one of those situations where you just say fuck it. Fuck the job, fuck management.

I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God. It feels like idolatry, like the worst kind of idolatry.

Violence is the great attractor of human history, Dr. Iverson. A force almost as irresistible as gravity.

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

You don’t have to be nice all the time. Get angry once in a while. You’re entitled.

There are so many kinds of time. The time by which we measure our lives. Months and years. Or the big time, the time that raises mountains and makes stars. Or all the things that happen between one heartbeat and the next. Its hard to live in all those kinds of times. Easy to forget that you live in all of them.

Certainly it's a rare glimpse into the lives of the Secular Ancients. They don't seem as bad as the Dominion histories make them out to be. Though clearly they were imperfect.""I don't deny that they were imperfect," Julian said in a distant voice. "I'm not uncritical of the Secular Ancients, Adam. They had all sorts of vices, and they committed one sin for which I can never bring myself to entirely forgive them.""What sin is that?""They evolved into us," he said.

Ars moriendi ars vivendi est: the art of dying is the art of living.