"I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God. It feels like idolatry, like the worst kind of idolatry."
— Robert Charles Wilson (Darwinia: A Novel of a Very Different Twentieth Century)

"We're all born strangers to ourselves and each other, and we're seldom formally introduced."
— Robert Charles Wilson (Spin)

"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."
— Robert Charles Wilson (Spin)

"We contrast the urban and the natural, but that’s a contemporary myth. We’re animals, after all; our cities are organic products, fully as “natural” (whatever that word really means) as a termite hill or a rabbit warren. But how much more interesting: how much more complex, dressed in the intricacies and exfoliations of human culture, simple patterns iterated into infinite variation. And full of secrets, beyond counting."
— Robert Charles Wilson (The Perseids and Other Stories)

"there is a prejuidice imposed on us by our brief window of consciousness: things that move are alive, things that don't are dead."
— Robert Charles Wilson

""Certainly it's a rare glimpse into the lives of the Secular Ancients. They don't seem as bad as the Dominion histories make them out to be. Though clearly they were imperfect"

"I don't deny that they were imperfect," Julian said in a distant voice. "I'm not uncritical of the Secular Ancients, Adam. They had all sorts of vices, and they committed one sin for which I can never bring myself to entirely forgive them"

"What sin is that?"

"They evolved into us," he said."
— Robert Charles Wilson (Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America)