86 Quotes by Robert Charles Wilson

The attacking piece displaces its victim. The vanquished piece leaves the plane of the board entirely. But it does not, in a higher sense, cease to exist.

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.

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

We call people rats, who desert a sinking ship; but in some cases the rat has the wisdom of the situation.

It was amazing how these events lost their impact, translated through the flat gaze of a video screen.