Quotes from John Scalzi

words themselves are action; they do not simply describe the world but in a very real sense make the world. Therefore it makes sense to pay attention to the worlds people are attempting to create in their words.

It can take five years for a piece of news to go from one end of space to the other, and the story's going to change in the telling. So you don't listen to the story. You listen to the pattern. And right now, the pattern is, weird fucking shit going on with the Flow.

Victor Frankenstein had assembled from the bodies of the dead and then jolted into life. Jared saw how Frankenstein felt pride in creating life, but how he feared and rejected the creature once that life had been given; how the creature lashed out, killing the doctor's family and friends, and how creator and created were finally consumed in a pyre, their fates interlocked. The allusions between the monster and the Special Forces were all too obvious.

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

His progress was more lateral than forward.

I want you to know there was some discussion about whether to make the pizza. Because it's a Hawaiian pizza? Yeah. We have a new employee who makes the pizzas. He considers pineapple on a pizza against the laws of God and Nature. She held out the pizza.

So many people go through life without love. Wanting love. Hoping for love. Hungering for more of it than they have. Missing love when it was gone.

Well, 'explode' maybe isn't the most accurate term. What actually happens is much more interesting.

One day I'd like to visit this planet without having to toss myself down its atmosphere.

An alliance with terrible people." "Really nice people don't usually accrue power.

I'm sorry," the groundskeeper said. "Usually the kharhn we feed to the kingsflower are already dead. I never get to see anything live fed to it. This is exciting for me.

That's what I'd ask you to do: Hope for peace. Because I know that I would love to be able to lay down my weapon and get to being a colonist. Just like you are. Just like I want to be.

Sometimes I don't know if my life is complicated, or if it's that I just think too much about things.

How did you get here, anyway?" "It's classified." "I'm close enough to stab you with a fork.

Not that I expected him to know; he didn't exactly have the "programmer" look to him, if you know what I mean. He'd be the programmer's boss. The one they hated. The one who made them work on holidays.

so if you live in the United States, and you are reading this prior to November 2020, please do me a favor and (a) Register to vote, or check to make sure your registration is still valid, (b) Remember to vote on election day (or before if you take an early ballot) and (c) Try not to vote for anyone who is a whirling amoral vortex of chaos.

It's conspiracy mongering." "I agree. But not all conspiracies crop up because someone forgot to adjust their tinfoil hat, ma'am. Sometimes they're part of a disinformation campaign.

There aren't a lot of people who can carry off petty," I said. "Yet somehow you do.

If memory serves, the last time we met there were also exploding starships," I said, to Wilson. "That's odd," Lowen said. "The last time I saw Harry, there were exploding starships, too." "It's coincidental," Wilson said, looking at Lowen and then at me.

If we're going to be fucked, Colonel, I prefer to get fucked on my feet instead of on my knees.

It's messed up that the most rational explanation for what does go on in this ship is that a television show intrudes on our reality and warps it. But that's not the worst thing about it." "Jesus Christ," Finn said. "If that's not the worst thing, what is?" "That as far as I can tell," Jenkins said, "it's not actually a very good show.

There's that old saying: Fast, cheap, and good, you get to pick two. The two you just picked are fast and good. Cheap has just left the building.

I love her more than I actually express in words—an irony for a writer—and am every day genuinely amazed I get to spend my life with her.

Also, you may find the color blue giving you a migraine for the next couple of days. Blue. Yeah. We don't know why it happens, we just know it does. When it does, just look at something not blue for a while. You know the sky is blue, right? Yes. Stay indoors. Don't look up.