Robert Charles Wilson (born December 15, 1953) is an American-Canadian science fiction author.
Do you want to tell the truth, or do you want to tell a story?
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.
You never stop being a parent, Adam, no matter how old or wise your child becomes you'll see.
Understanding is better than ignorance. Ignorance, unlike life, unlike narrative, is static. Understanding implies a forward motion, thus the possibility of change.
Along with a dozen other students I had dissected a human cadaver and sorted its contents by size, color, function, and weight. There was nothing pleasant about the experience. Its only consolation was its truth and its only virtue was its utility.
Nobody wants to conduct an autopsy on a dead saint.
It's partly the Southernization of America, in that the Southern working-class version of redneck is becoming the national version, and it's good-natured, it has humor and, in some ways, it's a performance.
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.
It was amazing how these events lost their impact, translated through the flat gaze of a video screen.
This would have been less annoying had it been untrue.
There's no drug that'll make a stupid man smart.
If I am an agnostic, Calyxa, it's because I'm also a realist.
What we cannot remember, we must rediscover.
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.