86 Quotes by Robert Charles Wilson

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

I understand so very little. But I am not afraid to look: I am a good observer at last. My eyes are open, and I am not afraid.

I don’t believe money is evil, but it can be terribly corrosive.

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

The Mysteries are the Mysteries, and ultimately personal maybe the most personal thing in the universe. Evangelism, in my opinion, is a failure of the imagination. Beware of prophets: the best visions are the ones they leave in the desert.

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

Nobody wants to conduct an autopsy on a dead saint.

Some things are taken away from you, some you leave behind and some you carry with you, world without end.

Times like this, with the wind moving the grass and curling around her like a huge cool hand, Tess felt the world as a second presence, as another person, as if the wind and the grass had voices of their own and she could hear them talking.