“ The infinitesimal seedlings became a forest of trees that grew courteously, correcting the distances between themselves as they shaped themselves to the promptings of available light and moisture, tem… William S. Wilson
“ For that half-hour in the hospital delivery room I was intimate with immensity, for that half-minute before birth I held her hands and for that duration we three were undivided, I felt the blood of he… William S. Wilson
“ Comparisons deplete the actuality of the things compared... (Conveyance: The Story I would Not Want Bill Wilson To Read) William S. Wilson
“ I don't think that anyone outside Paris can understand love and murder as we do.But Emile loves Paris, and loving Paris is a murderous education. (Anthropology: What Is Lost In Rotation) William S. Wilson
“ Today, and let us celebrate this fact, We can eat the light of our beloved, warmed by compassion or cooled by intellectual feeling. And if we are surprised, and some of us disappointed, that the light… William S. Wilson
“ Evolution propels itself by an inclination toward its next probable achievement. (Desire) William S. Wilson
“ The woman who undergoes this operation can sense the morphogenetic field at work in her face. She can feel the lines of force as they guide the embryonic cells into the patterns they must form. Why sh… William S. Wilson
“ Each part of a story, each word if possible, was to work frontally as well as laterally... (Conveyance: The Story I would Not Want Bill Wilson To Read) William S. Wilson
“ The stories of young men searching for their fathers are the stories of young men who through their adventures father themselves by doing for themselves what they hoped a father would do for them. (An… William S. Wilson
“ Psychological motivation is the desire to change relations between two points, and so psychology is the study of equations with two unbound variables. (America: Three Audiences) William S. Wilson
“ It's my side. I have found the pain. It is in my side, and I isolate it and define it, and arrange the other pains around it. I tell myself that pain is information, that I am learning to map the spac… William S. Wilson
“ I find no reason to think that aging is genetically determined. Genes do not provide information for the development of the individual beyond growth and the reproductive process in which the genes are… William S. Wilson
“ I have associated myself with failed scientists in order to associate myself with failed irony. ("Metier: Why I Don't Write Like Franz Kafka") William S. Wilson
“ Every problem of medicine is a problem of language, and this operation was a malapropism. William S. Wilson
“ Turning and climbing, the double helix evolved to an operation which had always existed as a possibility for mankind, the eating of light. The appetite for light was ancient. Light had been eaten meta… William S. Wilson
“ You might say as you tirelessly said of my stories, at least of the adjectives, that I should render the evidence, not render the verdict... ("Conveyance: The Story I would Not Want Bill Wilson To Rea… William S. Wilson
