Tim Wirkus

"You see, I’ve tried philosophy, but philosophy feels far too cautious, too bound by human logic. And then there’s religion—God, angels, sin—but none of that has ever appealed to me. Fiction masqueradi…"

"Seeing our creation’s name in print made us feel like minor gods; we had summoned into existence a human being, or at least the illusion of one."

"Just as nature abhors a vacuum, our minds abhor a mystery."

"As a student of history I understand the fleeting nature of any given way of life. What may seem to its occupants to be a state of unalterable stability will soon—in months, years, decades, or centuri…"

"As I said, such a possibility is a remote one, and I refuse to allow hope, that winged menace, to find purchase in my heart."

"It turns out that rivalry engenders an intimacy all its own."

"Of course, I told myself that the only reason I was experiencing anything unusual was because I was expecting to experience something unusual, primed as I’d been by Sérgio’s wild account of his own re…"

"Once we arrive in the afterlife, if it exists, we will never cease to be. Our post-mortal existence will stretch on forever. I don’t know. The thought of such an infinite future leaves me feeling clau…"