Understanding is better than ignorance. Ignorance, unlike life, unlike narrative, is static. Understanding implies a forward motion, thus the possibility of change.
Robert Charles WilsonStupid people do stupid things, but people who are smart enough can do something really stupid.
Robert Charles WilsonEvolution can't be predicted, Julian used to tell me; it's a scattershot business; it fires, but it doesn't aim.
Robert Charles WilsonThere 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.
Robert Charles Wilson