John Scalzi Quotes

You just know this is going to be bad," Susan said."—but when I went to college," Harry continued, t...

The universe is a big place. Maybe we're not in the best neighborhood.

I'm going to go pee. If the universe is bigger and stranger than I can imagine, it's best to meet it...

You can’t afford anthropomorphic biases when some of the aliens most like us would rather make human...

The problem with aging is not that it's one damn thing after another—it's every damn thing, all at o...

I think back to the day I stood before my wife's grave for the final time, and turned away from it w...

What we don't know can't hurt us.

Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us. I miss mean...

Relations were never good (how comfortable can you really be with a race that sees you as a nutritio...

After our negotiations were completed, the dome would be imploded and launched toward the nearest bl...

I did two things on my seventy-fifth birthday. I visited my wife's grave. Then I joined the army.Vis...

You do what you have to do to give people closure; it makes them feel better and it doesn’t cost you...

Trust your weapon, it is almost certainly smarter than you are. Remember this and you may yet live.

For as much as I hate the cemetery, I’ve been grateful it’s here, too. I miss my wife. It’s easier t...

She was my friend. Briefly, she was my lover. She was braver than I ever would have been in the mome...

Destiny gets compressed, you know, into just that small fraction of a second you have right in front...

That’s what I’d ask you to do: Hope for peace. Because I know that I would love to be able to lay do...

Making peace is often a simple thing, but simple isn’t the same thing as easy.

The rest of the rebels were recruited from the ranks of the young and excitable and had rather more ...

When I was 10, I was hit by a car, which turned my right tibia into a jigsaw puzzle.

If your social consciousness seems stuck in 1975, 2014 is gonna be a rough ride.

Humor is rare in science fiction... there's so little of it that it automatically reminds you of oth...

The failure mode of clever is “asshole.

Dreher laments we now live in a “post-Christian” America, but he’s wrong. The Americans who are stan...

Creativity eventually comes from the need not to have ourselves or other people eaten by leopards.

I'm more interested in becoming a commercial writer, and unfortunately, commentary on my writing fro...

1. Everyone is entitled to their opinion about the things they read (or watch, or listen to, or tast...

Do what you need to do and enjoy life as it happens.

In general there should be gay characters in YA because a) surprise, there are gay folks everywhere ...

Jack Holloway told me he would get the son of a bitch who killed my child and the mate of my child,"...

Rich people show their appreciation through favors. When everyone you know has more money than they ...

It's not an effective protest if it's not pissing people off.

Simply put, she was the one who had to put up with me. That she did so with love and patience and en...

When you're a kid all you want to do is be somewhere else.

You say ‘cure.’ I hear ‘you’re not human enough.

What is it like when you lose someone you love?" Jane asked."You die, too. And you wait around for y...

The universe isn't going to be conquered by legions of geriatrics. No offense.

Damn real live people, getting in the way of peaceful ideals.

Colonization is the key to our race’s survival. It’s as simple as that. We must colonize or be close...

Leon had attached himself to me in Chicago like a fat, brat-and-beer-filled tick; I was amazed that ...

Well, I miss my wife, you know," I said. "But I also miss the feeling of, I don’t know, comfort. The...

Then you're seventy-five, friends are dead, and you've replaced at least one major organ: you have t...

I was getting away with something in my own way. But then I get here and saw you, brain-dead and wit...

Yes, he's an equal opportunity asshole," Szilard said. "And he's aware of it, which he thinks means ...

To everyone who thinks writing a sequel should be easy because you've already clreated the universe:...

Is it painful?" the groundskeeper asked. "I am asking for science.

I'll say it: I want to see an ugly woman as a spokeswoman for a women's network. Ugly men are out th...

The story of how I left Huckleberry begins -- as do all worthy stories -- with a goat

You would rather face a life without me than to have me choose a life I would not choose for myself.

Fear is a scavenger who feeds on the future; on what may be and what is possible, extending down the...

I do not mind when you tell me what you want and put that first instead of last.

Fear sits and smiles and is predatory, immobile and silent and serene; an observer who conserves his...