D. W. Wilson Quotes

I'm the kind of anarchist whose chief objection to the State is that it kills so many people. Government is the epitome of the deathist philosophy I reject.

Obviously, the faster we process information, the more rich and complex our models or glosses - our reality-tunnels - will become.

Here's to the good Nuns for telling me what books NOT to read!

The variables vary too much and the constants aren't as constant as they seem.

I'm using myself as a typical 20th century model as I'm trying to make sense out of the world around me.

It was possible at last to hear the silence to appreciate that there was a silence, deep and potent, out there beyond the pretension of the light.

An honest book is almost as good as a friend.

There's no point living if you can't, at least occasionally, live.

There's no drug that'll make a stupid man smart.

This would have been less annoying had it been untrue.

Promises were like bad checks, easy to write and hard to cash.

What we cannot remember, we must rediscover.

Stupid people do stupid things, but people who are smart enough can do something really stupid.

One doesn't have to understand in order to look. One has to look, in order to understand.

You never stop being a parent, Adam, no matter how old or wise your child becomes you'll see.

Personally, I don't believe in anything more supernatural than what you read about in the Bible, and I only believe that one day out of seven.

I suppose every decade gets the music it deserves.

We'll do what life always does defy expectations.

Do you want to tell the truth, or do you want to tell a story?

Does it strike you, Mr. Keller, that we live every day in the science fiction of our youth?

Is there any evidence to the contrary? I don't need certainty in order to act on a well-founded suspicion.

Evolution can't be predicted, Julian used to tell me; it's a scattershot business; it fires, but it doesn't aim.

I understand so very little. But I am not afraid to look: I am a good observer at last. My eyes are open, and I am not afraid.

Ecstasy hates company.

The world is what it is and won't be bargained with.

Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that's why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit.

It was amazing how these events lost their impact, translated through the flat gaze of a video screen.

I suppose the pursuit of fashion has always carried a price, monetary or otherwise.

I believed there were no Hypotheticals in the sense of consciously acting agents - conscious entities. There was only the process. The needles of evolution, endlessly knitting.

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

Some pious men may find this truth unorthodox and bitter: But Nature, Chance, and Time ensure survival of the fitter!

Some things are taken away from you, some you leave behind and some you carry with you, world without end.

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

Average people seldom talked about anything interesting and often hurt each other savagely.

And death? I don't fear death. I dread the absence of it.

The attacking piece displaces its victim. The vanquished piece leaves the plane of the board entirely. But it does not, in a higher sense, cease to exist.

John Scalzi is a fresh and appealing new voice, and Old Man's War is classic SF seen from a modern perspective—a fast-paced tour of a daunting, hostile universe.

Understanding is better than ignorance. Ignorance, unlike life, unlike narrative, is static. Understanding implies a forward motion, thus the possibility of change.

When does loyalty become martyrdom?

I loved Molly. Or at least I told myself I did. Or, if what I felt for her was not love, it was at least a plausible imitation, a convincing substitute.

Mystery lies over the sea. Every ship is bound for Thule.

It is the custom when praising a Russian writer to do so at the expense of all other Russian writers.

This is woman's great benevolence, that she will become a martyr for beauty, so that the world may have pleasure.

I simply want to take a break and catch my breath. But I also think that, sometimes, the bravest thing you can do is to deliberately keep some time free and see what the world throws at you.

I love complex characters - strong females who are vulnerable but have a life and soul. That's what I'm drawn to and what I enjoy most.

I don't know about writing. It's quite lonely. You have to have a lot of patience with yourself.

It was really fun to play the woman in charge and in control. She's powerful and she uses the aspects of being a woman. She uses her sexuality as a weapon.

What really excites me is the unknown, and getting to grips with something you have no idea about.

I'd love to direct again.

I'm drawn to damaged, complicated characters.