Robert Charles Wilson

"“Ah, books.” Ziegler, smiling, came up behind me. “They bob like corks on an ocean. Float between worlds, messages in bottles."

"It was sad but completely understandable. Ten billion human beings without any cortical or limbic augmentation had simply acted to maximize their individual well-being. They hadn’t given much thought …"

"Later Julian would give me another book he had culled from among the Archival duplicates, a short novel called The Time Machine by Mr. H. G. Wells, about a marvelous but apparently imaginary cart whic…"

"They allow us access to the experience of the past—the only kind of time machine we are ever likely to have."

"If I am an agnostic, Calyxa, it’s because I'm also a realist."

"The essence of life is change, he said, and the essence of eternal life is eternal change."

"We live in an enlightened age, however, an age that has learned to see and to value other living things as they are, not as we wish them to be. And the long and creditable history of science has taugh…"

"An honest book is almost as good as a friend."