"It was beyond him how someone could voluntarily let himself get involved in this game of dimension-shifting and mutant-battling. But it takes all sorts to make a continuum." (Robert Silverberg, "MUgwump 4" 1959)
"He swung dizzily along the line of time, as he had done so often before. He saw himself, here and here, and saw others, shadow-figures, dream-figures, lurking behind the curtains of time." (Robert Silverberg, "Open the Sky", 1966)
"Forget it. No, don't forget it. Don't forget anything. Take a lesson from it: collect all the data before shouting nonsense." (Robert Silverberg, "The Man in the Maze", 1969)
"The universe is a perilous place. We do our best. Everything else is unimportant." (Robert Silverberg, "The Man in the Maze", 1969)
"You can make no meaningful evaluations of the universe without the confidence that you are seeing it clearly." (Robert Silverberg, "The Man in the Maze", 1969)
"You have come to the place where all times are one, where all errors can be unmade, where past and future are fluid and subject to redefinition." (Robert Silverberg, "Breckenridge and the Continuum", 1973)
"He didn't have to observe the niceties of etiquette when talking to a computer." (Robert Silverberg, "Born with the Dead", 1974)
"To a dead the whole universe is plastic, nothing’s real, nothing matters a hell of a lot, it’s all only a joke." (Robert Silverberg, "Born with the Dead", 1974)
"In the absolute universe all events can be regarded as absolutely deterministic, and if we can't perceive the greater structures, it's because our vision is faulty. If we had a real grasp of causality down to the molecular level, we wouldn't need to rely on mathematical approximations, on statistics and probabilities, in making predictions. If our perceptions of cause and effect were only good enough, we'd be able to attain absolute knowledge of what is to come. We would make ourselves all-seeing." (Robert Silverberg, "The Stochastic Man", 1975)
"We are born by accident into a purely random universe." (Robert Silverberg, "The Stochastic Man", 1975)
"The only workable time machine ever invented is the science-fiction story." (Robert Silverberg, [introduction] "Trips in Time", 1977)
"The infinite fullness of time brings about everything, he thought: even intelligent lobsters, even a divine octopus." (Robert Silverberg, "Homefaring", 1983)
"Time devours everything. Entire histories vanish. What matters is endurance. The spirit survives and goes onward when the palaces crumble and the kings are forgotten." (Robert Silverberg, "Letters from Atlantis", 1990)
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