Stephen Baxter Quotes

When you get close enough to someone you're never really alone again.

A citizen of the Roman Empire, for example, would have placed less value on individual liberty in the modern Western sense than on collective responsibility.

When you realize that you are an eternal being, you will laugh at things that used to give you anxiety attacks.

We do teach our kids the golden rule - Do as you would be done by.

The Long Earth is bountiful but not forgiving.

In the Vortex that lies beyond time and space tumbled a police box that was not a police box.

Authority. The antithesis of science.

We seem to be young, in a very old Galaxy. We're like kids tiptoeing through a ruined mansion.

A sentient mind refuses to be confined by the parameters of its programming.

This is a strange situation, sir. Perhaps imagination is what we need.

If I was a cynic I would be wondering if sooner or later some charismatic douche-bag might stomp all over this Little House on the Prairie dream of yours.

A brief life burns brightly.

Earth stuff, Mars boy.

Every world needed an artist.

Life gets boring with only humans to talk to.