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

- Stephen Baxter

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

- Stephen Baxter

The past is a distraction, a source of envy, enmity, bitterness. Only the present matters, for only in the present can we shape the future. Cut loose…

- Stephen Baxter

The Long Earth is bountiful but not forgiving.

- Stephen Baxter

Authority. The antithesis of science.

- Stephen Baxter

We ought to call ourselves Homo clamorans. Noisemaking man.

- Stephen Baxter

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

- Stephen Baxter

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

- Stephen Baxter

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

- Stephen Baxter